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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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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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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.
Nellie L. McClung
Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
Nellie L. McClung
Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
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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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Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
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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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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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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.
Nellie L. McClung
That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.
Nellie L. McClung
War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.
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No nation ever rises higher than its women.
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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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Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
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It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
Nellie L. McClung
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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Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.
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