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No nation ever rises higher than its women.
Nellie L. McClung
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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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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 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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War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.
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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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it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
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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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