Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

Anna Howard Shaw — American Activist born on February 14, 1847, died on July 02, 1919

Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

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.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

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