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Nellie McClung Quotes


A Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist.
Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney (20 October 1873 – 1 September 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. In 1927, McClung and four other women: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, who together came to be known as "The Famous Five" (also called "The Valiant Five"), launched the "Persons Case," contending that women could be "qualified persons" eligible to sit in the Senate. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that they were not. However, won upon appeal to the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council—the court of last resort for Canada at that time.

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This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.

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

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

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

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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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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.