Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
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.
I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.
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.
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!
That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind – that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man’s comfort.
People must know the past to understand the present and to face the future.
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.
Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.
No nation ever rises higher than its women...
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
Every season of life has its compensations...
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...
Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.
The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.
Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.