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No nation ever rises higher than its women.
Nellie L. McClung
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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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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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Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
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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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it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
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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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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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People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.
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Every season of life has its compensations.
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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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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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Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
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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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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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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
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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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