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. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
