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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
Nellie L. McClung
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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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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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Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
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Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.
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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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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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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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it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
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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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Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
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Never underestimate the power of a woman.
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People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.
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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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Every season of life has its compensations.
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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 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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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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It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
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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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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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