To be bound by outworn customs and traditions, and to be hampered by every known obstacle which could be put in one’s path, and then to have the world calmly look on and tell you it was no use, it was the divine will, was growing too absurd to be longer tolerated with dignity or accepted with self-respect. The soul within me refused to beat out its life against barred doors, and I rebelled. – Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919)