| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 53403 |
| QUOTATION: | 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 ... |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919), U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902).
In 1893 at the twenty-fifth annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Shaw was speaking of the travails of the Rev. Anna Oliver, who had to serve as minister without the customary enormous aid of a full-time “minister’s wife.” |
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