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Agnes Macphail

"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 down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours."

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"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 down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"Let no such man be trusted."

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Donna Grant

"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

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Donna Grant

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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Donna Grant

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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Agnes Macphail
"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 down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours."

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Agnes Macphail
"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 senate."

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Agnes Macphail
"I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality."

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Agnes Macphail
"Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone."

Life

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Agnes Macphail
"I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men."

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Agnes Macphail
"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 live by, then homes will be preserves."

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Agnes Macphail
"If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it."

Home

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Agnes Macphail
"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 in spite of it."

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Agnes Macphail
"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, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name."

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Agnes Macphail
"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 being angels."

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