Nellie L. McClung Quotes

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.

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

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

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.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

No nation ever rises higher than its women.

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!

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

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.

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

I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

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.

Every season of life has its compensations.

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

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

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

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

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.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

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

I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.

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

The good is the greatest rival of the best.

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.

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

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

The middle years of life come on like thunder.

Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.