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Never underestimate the power of a woman.

Nellie L. McClung

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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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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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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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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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Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
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Every season of life has its compensations.
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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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Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
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Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
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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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Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.
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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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Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
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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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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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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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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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Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
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