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.

The Center is named after the Reverend Doctor Anna Howard Shaw a Methodist minister medical doctor and suffragist. During her time in medical school Shaw became an outspoken advocate of political rights for women. At the age of twenty-three Shaw was invited by Dr.

She was also a physician and the first ordained female Methodist minister in the United States.