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Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
— Nellie L. McClung
The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.
— Nellie L. McClung
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
— Nellie L. McClung
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
— Nellie L. McClung
Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.
— Nellie L. McClung
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
— Nellie L. McClung
Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.
— Nellie L. McClung
It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
— Nellie L. McClung
Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
— Nellie L. McClung
Never complain, never explain, get the thing done and let them howl.
— Nellie L. McClung
A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.
— Nellie L. McClung
Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
— Nellie L. McClung
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.
— Nellie L. McClung
The grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
— Nellie L. McClung
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
— Nellie L. McClung
Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
— Nellie L. McClung
The middle years of life come on like thunder.
— Nellie L. McClung
Thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
— Nellie L. McClung
Every season of life has its compensations ...
— Nellie L. McClung
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
— Nellie L. McClung
The good is the greatest rival of the best.
— Nellie L. McClung
Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?
— Nellie L. McClung
No nation ever rises higher than its women ...
— Nellie L. McClung
That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.
— Nellie L. McClung
Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.
— Nellie L. McClung
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.
— Nellie L. McClung
I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.
— Nellie L. McClung
Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
— Nellie L. McClung
I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
— Nellie L. McClung
People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future;
— Nellie L. McClung
