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Never underestimate the power of a woman.

Nellie L. McClung

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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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Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
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Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
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