The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.
Anna Howard ShawOn every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
Anna Howard ShawAny woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.
Anna Howard ShawI 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.
Anna Howard ShawAnd looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?
Anna Howard Shaw