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10 quotes by Anna Howard Shaw

Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) 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.
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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.

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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.

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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 up under monarchical... →

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

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Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

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If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

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