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.

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.