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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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It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
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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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Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
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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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Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.
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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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Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
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No nation ever rises higher than its women.
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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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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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I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
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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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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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Never underestimate the power of a woman.
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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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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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Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.
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