A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, “Women have never produced anything of any value to the world.” I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
ATTRIBUTION:
Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919), U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 19, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902).
Speaking before the thirty-first annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association on April 29, 1899; her address was entitled “Working Partners.”
