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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres."

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"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

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"Soundless echoes - no voice,Sadness doth keep thee at bay,Stagnation rises as ebb & flow,Nothing alters,Unless you choose to break away."

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"Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"Personal responsibility leads to national transformation."

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"Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl."

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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it."

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"All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down."

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Amber Hurdle

"When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you."

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"Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone."
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"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 stuck it out once I got there."
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"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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"I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality."
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"I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men."
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"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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"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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"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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"If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it."
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"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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