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Some Female Persons of This Land
Oct. 2nd, 2008 02:03 amNever retract, never explain, never apologize – get the thing done and let them howl!
People still speak of womanhood as if it were a disease.
The woman who really loves her own children…is the woman that wants to see other peoples’ children get their chance too.
“Who will mind the baby” cried one of our public men, in great agony of spirit. “when the mother goes to vote?” . One woman replied that she thought she could get the person that minded it when she went to pay her taxes – which seemed to be a fairly reasonable proposition.
Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
In Canada we are developing a pattern of life and I know something about one block of that pattern ... I helped make it.
Nellie McClung
Some people achieve happiness and some just live in Toronto.
Emily Murphy
For some reason, a glaze passes over people’s faces when you say Canada.
Sandra Gotlieb
This is my country. What I want to express is "here" and I Love it. Amen!
Emily Carr
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
If you’re not annoying somebody, you’re not really alive.
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.
Margaret Atwood
My love for Canada was a feeling very nearly allied to that which the condemned criminal entertains for his cell- his only hope of escape being through the portals of the grave.
Susanna Moodie
The usual statement is that I am a remarkable woman because I can do it; the implication is that the average women is too dumb to succeed at a man's task - and I resent that implication, for it is false.
E. Cora Hind
Sometimes very young children can look at the old, and a look passes between them, conspiratorial, sly and knowing. It's because neither are human to the middling ones...
Margaret Lawrence
I do not want to be the angel of any home, I want for myself what I want for other women, Absolute equality. After that is secured then men and women can take turns at being angels.
Perhaps if I owed my father the ability to get into Parliament, I owed my mother the ability to stand it when I got there.
The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, and your hands to their throats and you will get all they have.
Agnes Macphail
To fly in space is to see the reality of earth, alone, to touch the earth after is to see beauty for the first time.
Roberta Bondar
But I do hope that it will in some measure open the eyes of humanity to the truth that the women who bear and train the nation's sons should have some voice in the political issues that may send those sons to die on the battlefields.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
People still speak of womanhood as if it were a disease.
The woman who really loves her own children…is the woman that wants to see other peoples’ children get their chance too.
“Who will mind the baby” cried one of our public men, in great agony of spirit. “when the mother goes to vote?” . One woman replied that she thought she could get the person that minded it when she went to pay her taxes – which seemed to be a fairly reasonable proposition.
Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
In Canada we are developing a pattern of life and I know something about one block of that pattern ... I helped make it.
Nellie McClung
Some people achieve happiness and some just live in Toronto.
Emily Murphy
For some reason, a glaze passes over people’s faces when you say Canada.
Sandra Gotlieb
This is my country. What I want to express is "here" and I Love it. Amen!
Emily Carr
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
If you’re not annoying somebody, you’re not really alive.
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.
Margaret Atwood
My love for Canada was a feeling very nearly allied to that which the condemned criminal entertains for his cell- his only hope of escape being through the portals of the grave.
Susanna Moodie
The usual statement is that I am a remarkable woman because I can do it; the implication is that the average women is too dumb to succeed at a man's task - and I resent that implication, for it is false.
E. Cora Hind
Sometimes very young children can look at the old, and a look passes between them, conspiratorial, sly and knowing. It's because neither are human to the middling ones...
Margaret Lawrence
I do not want to be the angel of any home, I want for myself what I want for other women, Absolute equality. After that is secured then men and women can take turns at being angels.
Perhaps if I owed my father the ability to get into Parliament, I owed my mother the ability to stand it when I got there.
The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, and your hands to their throats and you will get all they have.
Agnes Macphail
To fly in space is to see the reality of earth, alone, to touch the earth after is to see beauty for the first time.
Roberta Bondar
But I do hope that it will in some measure open the eyes of humanity to the truth that the women who bear and train the nation's sons should have some voice in the political issues that may send those sons to die on the battlefields.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
