Occupation: Canadian Politician Birth: October 20, 1873 Death: September 1, 1951
Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?.
I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that ….
The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushi….
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, wo….
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 some….
Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women..
By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny win….
Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women..
I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked..
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship..
People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future..
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..
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl..
No nation ever rises higher than its women..
Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?.
Never underestimate the power of a woman..
I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place..
That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort..
it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something..
We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pu….
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 ser….