Anna Howard Shaw

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

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.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household.