Helen H. Gardener Quotes


This world needs all our best efforts and earnest endeavors twenty-four hours every day…if our labors were needed in another world we should be in another world; so long as we are in this one I believe in making the best and the most of the materials we have on hand.


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Helen H. Gardener, 1853-1925, Penname for Alice Chenoweth Day, Member, United States Civil Service Commission, Vice President, National American Woman Suffrage Association, Men, Women, and Gods, 1885

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Helen Hamilton Gardener (1853–1925), born Alice Chenoweth, was an American author, rationalist public intellectual, political activist, and government functionary. Gardener produced many lectures, articles, and books during the 1880s and 1890s and is remembered today for her role in the freethought and women's suffrage movements and for her place as a pioneering woman in the top echelon of the American civil service.