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People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

Nellie L. McClung

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I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
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War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.
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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
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That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.
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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
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Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
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I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.
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thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
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Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
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Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
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Never underestimate the power of a woman.
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A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.
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The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.
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Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.
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By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.
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The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.
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The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.
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I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
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Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
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War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.
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