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.

— Anna Howard Shaw

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.

— Anna Howard Shaw

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

— Anna Howard Shaw

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

— Anna Howard Shaw