"Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid,……" — Anna Howard Shaw
"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."
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17 Quotes by Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw has 17 quotes on this site.
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Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
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The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth…
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Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.
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I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I…
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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…
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality…
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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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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the…
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Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
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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…
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I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.
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If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
— David Attenborough
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
— Jane Austen
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
— Teresa of Avila
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
— Sebastian Bach
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
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