Country Quote by Anna Howard Shaw

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

— Anna Howard Shaw

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

— Anna Howard Shaw

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

— Anna Howard Shaw

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…

— Anna Howard Shaw

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

— Anna Howard Shaw

And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave…

— Anna Howard Shaw

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under…

— Anna Howard Shaw

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

— Anna Howard Shaw

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

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

— 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…

— Anna Howard Shaw

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…

— Anna Howard Shaw