Agnes Macphail Quotes

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• The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will…
• Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.
• 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…
• Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to…
• If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
• I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
• It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living,…
• We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
• Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than…
• When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit…
• Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
• I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
• Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.
• I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I…
• If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to…

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