I have always been a great admirer of women. I think they are the most wonderful creatures on earth. I think they are more intelligent than men. I think they are more capable than men. I think they are more practical than men.
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"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
"I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work."
"I have friends in the other world. I have had very pleasant conversations with them. I am rather unorthodox in this matter."
"I have no respect for the man who says he is too busy to read. He is too busy to live."
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
Reported in 'Edison: His Life and Inventions' by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
Date: 1910
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Edison declares straightforward admiration for women, arguing they surpass men in intelligence, capability, and practicality. He frames women not as decorative or secondary but as genuinely superior in the traits that matter for getting things done. It's a blunt endorsement of female competence, stacking four escalating claims to make the point impossible to soften or read as mere flattery toward the fairer sex.
Edison ran a laboratory empire at Menlo Park and West Orange, managing hundreds of staff and relying heavily on his wives Mary Stilwell and Mina Miller for domestic and business stability. He hired women as researchers and clerks when most industrialists would not, and pushed his daughters toward education. Coming from a relentless pragmatist who valued results over pedigree, praising women specifically for practicality reflects how he actually judged people at his bench.
Edison spoke during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century suffrage fight, when American women still could not vote federally until 1920 and were largely barred from professions, patents, and higher education. Factories were hiring women cheaply, Seneca Falls was within living memory, and figures like Susan B. Anthony were agitating nationally. A famous male inventor publicly calling women smarter and more capable than men cut against prevailing Victorian assumptions about female intellect.
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