Quotes from Nellie L. McClung

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

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

Every season of life has its compensations.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

The middle years of life come on like thunder.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

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

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?