Nellie McClung Quotes

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That's the worst of family troubles. You can't keep it all from the children, and a wound in a child's heart is like a wound in a young tree. It grows with the tree, not out, but in.

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The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

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The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

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War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

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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.

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That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

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By nice women... you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

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Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

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Thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

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War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

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In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

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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!

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Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

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Away back in the cave-dwelling days, there was a simple and definite distribution of labor. Men fought and women worked. Men fought because they liked it; and women worked because it had to be done.... The masculine attitude toward life was: 'I feel good today; I'll go out and kill something.'

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If prejudices belonged to the vegetable world they would be described under the general heading of: 'Hardy Perennials; will grow in any soil, and bloom without ceasing; require no cultivation; will do better when left alone.'

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Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

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