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I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
Nellie L. McClung
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Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.
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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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thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
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People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.
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Every season of life has its compensations.
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Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
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Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!
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It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
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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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No nation ever rises higher than its women.
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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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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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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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Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
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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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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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Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
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Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
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