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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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[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.

Law, Vacation, Voted, Wash, Week, Would Be

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.

Doing Me, Inferior, Men, Saw, Underpaid, Wages

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 product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

Chief, Enfranchisement, Equality, Gentleman, Produced, Women

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

Cumberer, Doe, Earth, Service, Useless, Women

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.

Dream, Listen, Men, Moving, Told, World

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

Get Well, Happiness, Joyfully, Morning, Wake

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

Come, Millennium, Vote, Women

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.

Believe, Dignity, Good Friend, Men, Possibly, Sent

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.

Enlarged, Freedom, Government, Monarchical, School, States

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.

Country, Occasion, Receive, Take, Wages, Working Women

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?

King, Kings, Pride, Tramples, War, Waves

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 cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette.

American, Cards, Cookies, Created, February, Valentine

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.

Equal, Ignore, Integrity, Known, Night, United States

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.

Experience, Nice, Power, Thinking, Yesterday

Work. . . has always been my favorite form of recreation.

Favorite, Form, My Favorite, Recreation, Work

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

Absence, Love, Ones, Peace, Times

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Girl, Starving, Talk, Useless, Virtue

God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down.

Breaking Down, Down, Man, Men, Trying, Work

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