Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

• 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.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Men, Doing Me, Wages

  Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.94, e-artnow

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• Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Causes, Bigger, Humans

  Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.209, e-artnow

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• 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

  Women, Equality, Gentleman

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• 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.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Thinking, Advice, Foxes

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• I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Happiness, Morning, Get Well

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• 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.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Men, Trying, Breaking Down

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• 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.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Integrity, Believe, Belief

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• ¿Qué es el americanismo? Cada uno tiene una respuesta diferente. Algunos dicen que es no someterse nunca al dictado de un Rey. Otros dicen que el americanismo es el orgullo de la libertad y la defensa de un insulto a la bandera con su sangre. Cuando algún mediocre pisotea esa bandera, debemos estar dispuestos a derramar la sangre de la nación, dicen. Pero ¿no nos sentamos en silencio cuando esa bandera ondea sobre condiciones de vida que deberían ser un insulto a todo patriotismo?

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Kings, War, Pride

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• 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.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Country, Wages, Working Women

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• [When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Vacation, Law, Would Be

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• Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Valentine, Cookies, Cards

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• 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.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Integrity, Night, United States

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• I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Marriage, Party, Justice

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• But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Jesus, Educational, Teaching

  Anna Howard Shaw (1960). “The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw”

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• The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Vote, Millennium

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• I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Good Friend, Joy, World

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• Por mucho que queramos a nuestros seres queridos, a veces, durante su ausencia, reina una paz inexplicable.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Love, Peace, Absence

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• It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Girl, Useless, Virtue

  Anna Howard Shaw (1960). “The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw”

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• Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Women, Earth, Doe

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• And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Guerra, Hombres, Dos

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• If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Freedom, School, Government

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• Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Work, My Favorite, Form

  Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.21, e-artnow

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• The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Dream, Moving, Men

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• Ayer hablé en un club de mujeres en Filadelfia y una joven me dijo después: "Bueno, eso suena muy bien, pero ¿no crees que es mejor ser el poder detrás del trono?". Le contesté que no tenía mucha experiencia con tronos, pero que una mujer que ha estado en un trono, y que ahora está detrás de él, parece preferir estar en el trono.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Nice, Thinking, Yesterday

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• I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Believe, Good Friend, Men

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