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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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A.E. Samaan

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

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A.E. Samaan

"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."

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A.E. Samaan

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

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A.E. Samaan

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

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A.E. Samaan

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

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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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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
"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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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
"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."

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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."

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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
"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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