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
crossed shepherd threshold
Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
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.
girl useless virtue
It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.
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.
country wages working-women
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.
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.
love peace absence
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.