Anna Howard Shaw Quotes
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.
God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down.
It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.
Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.
I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.
When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.