5 Quotes & Sayings By Anna Howard Shaw

Anna Howard Shaw (September 16, 1847 - January 5, 1919) was an American religious leader and the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi in America. Shaw received her ordination from the Society of Rabbis of the United States and Canada at the age of 22 and was already an ordained minister in 1872. She is best known for her leadership roles in the fight for women's rights and equal opportunity. She helped organize the first woman's rights convention in 1873 and organized the Women's Christian Temperance Union Read more

In addition to leading women's groups, Shaw was a prominent speaker on behalf of suffrage, pacifism, and socialism. In 1874 she helped found the National Women's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Shaw also worked with Stanton to establish a new school for girls at Vineland, New Jersey.

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Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation. Anna Howard Shaw
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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
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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
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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