Emily Murphy Quotes

#1. I think women can save civilization.

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#2. The world loves a peaceful man, but it gives way to a strenuous kicker.

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#3. This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

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#4. Whenever I don't know whether to fight or not, I fight.

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#5. Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

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#6. On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.

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#7. It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

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#8. 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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#9. No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.

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#10. Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

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#11. 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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