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Every season of life has its compensations.

Nellie L. McClung

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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
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Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
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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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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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it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
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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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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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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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