Charlotte Whitton quotes
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“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
-- Charlotte WhittonSource : Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2
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“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
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“For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.”
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“Big words seldom accompany good deeds.”
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“Man cannot live by incompetence alone.”
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“When one must, one can.”
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“Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.”
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“There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.”
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“Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.”
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“It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.”
-- Charlotte Whitton
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