Annie Smith Peck
1850 - 1935
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Biography
Annie Smith Peck was an American mountaineer, educator, and suffragist who made significant contributions towards women's rights and mountain climbing. Born in 1850, she became the third woman to ascend the Matterhorn in Switzerland and the first to climb alone. Peck was a fierce advocate for women's education and equality, and she used her climbing feats to challenge gender stereotypes and advocate for women's physical and intellectual capabilities. She was also a lecturer and writer, inspiring many with her adventurous spirit and progressive views.
Famous Quotes (5)
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I was never one to be tame.
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The question that is to be settled is not whether women are as strong as men, but whether women are strong enough for the work that is before them.
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Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.
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I often wonder why more girls do not caper about in the open air with a plant press, as the boys do with a popgun.
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I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch. And I will be heard.