Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shawwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth14 February 1847
CountryUnited States of America
Anna Howard Shaw quotes about
two-sides pioneers hours
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
work my-favorite recreation
Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
nice thinking yesterday
I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, "Well, that sounds very nice, but don't you think it is better to be the power behind the throne?" I answered that I had not had much experience with thrones, but a woman who has been on a throne, and who is now behind it, seems to prefer to be on the throne.
integrity night united-states
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.
dream moving men
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.
freedom school government
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.
good-friend joy world
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.
vote millennium
The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.
vacation law would-be
[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.
jesus educational teaching
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.
women earth doe
Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.
war men two
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?
marriage party justice
I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.
kings war pride
What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?