Emily Murphy quotes
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“We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.”
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“I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.”
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“The world loves a peaceful man, but it gives way to a strenuous kicker.”
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“No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.”
-- Emily MurphySource : Donna James, Emily Ferguson Murphy (2001). “Emily Murphy”, Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
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“Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.”
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“This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.”
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“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
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“On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.”
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“Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.”
-- Emily Murphy
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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