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Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.

Nellie L. McClung

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Nellie L. McClung
Alberta
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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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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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thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
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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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Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
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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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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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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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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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Every season of life has its compensations.
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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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Never underestimate the power of a woman.
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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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Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
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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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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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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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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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