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Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.
Nellie L. McClung
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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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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 a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
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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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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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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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War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.
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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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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
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Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
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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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It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
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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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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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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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Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
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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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thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
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Every season of life has its compensations.
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