“On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the re...” — Anna Howard Shaw Quote

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

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.

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.

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.