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ON Canada and being Canadian
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For some reason, a glaze
passes over people’s faces when you say Canada.
Sandra Gotlieb - Canadian author & wife of former ambassador to the
U S.
Source: Http//
www.canadianquoatation.com |
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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 a great
country.
Emily Murphy - (1868-1933) First
woman magistrate in the British Empire and one of the "Famous Five". Source Women in History
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It is wonderful to feel
the grandness of Canada in the raw.
Emily Carr, Canadian artist and author.
Source:
www.thinkexist.com |
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To speak a second language
is a lesson in humility and there is no reason why that lesson should be
confined to
French Canadians.
Gwethalyn Graham -
Canadian author Source : www.canadianquotations.com
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I feel
pride every time I go into a citizenship ceremony and I repeat the Oath of
Citizenship and I pledge allegiance
to the Queen
Hon Elinor Caplan - former
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
Source : Speech May 22, 2001 |
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Canada is pristine and
absolutely gorgeous.
Julie Payette, Canadian Astronaut
Source MacLean's Magazine July 1, 2004 |
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My
favourite Canadian thing is I feel incredibly loved in this country.
When I'm here, I fell like people actually give a sh** about other
people.
Maggie Cassella Host of Star TV's I said so.
Source: MacLean's Magazine, July 1, 2004.
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This is my country. What I want
to express is "here" and I Love it. Amen!
Emily Carr - 1871-1945 Canadian artist and
author. Source: Hundreds and thousands ;
the journals of Emily Carr. Toronto : Clarke Irwin, 1966 Pg 101
See also: 100 Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces by
Merna Forester Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2004 pg 61.
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...the
country is too young and too thinly populated to afford an adequate
field for exercise of unusual gifts. In consequence, Canada's most
celebrated singer is seldom heard at home : the best Canadian
pictures are hung in foreign salons ; the best books are published
first in London and New York.
Carrie Derick - 1862-1941 first woman
university professor in Canada. Source :
"Professions and careers open to women" by Carrie Derrick in
Women of Canada - their life and work. Ottawa : Minister of
Agriculture, 1900 SEE ALSO; 100 Canadian heroines: famous and
forgotten faces by Merna Forester Toronto: Dundurn Press,
2004 Pg 79. |
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There's something romantic about
being Canadian. We're a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized
and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact that I'm
Canadian.
k.d. Lang - 1961- Country music
performer. Source: Canadian women's whit and
wisdom. Compiled by Cori Howard New York : Nine Publishing, 2004 Pg
21. |
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If it matters at all , it's
because we know who we are. I'd never leave Canada. This is my home
and I got to be everything I am right here.
Sarah McLachlan - 1968 - musician,
composer and singer.
Source: Canadian women's whit and wisdom. Compiled by Cori Howard
New York : Nine Publishing, 2004 Pg 22.. |
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We only need to look at what we
are really doing in the world and at home and we'll know what it is
to be Canadian.
Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada.
Source : The Ottawa Citizen February 5, 2005
pg B7. |
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I think we are
incredibly lucky here. We have this high standard of life, no big
security problems, and I like Canadian society. I like this true
openness to cultures and religions, which I think is basic to us;
you don't find it in other countries...
Sonja
Bata, business woman and founder of the Bata Show Museum.
Source :
Profile; Sonja Bata in Good Times April 2004 pg. 15. |
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If the national mental illness of the
United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid
schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood, award winning
author
Source: Quotable Canada; a
national treasure by John Robert Columbo (North York, Running
Press, 1998) |
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The
Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales
and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good
political article from their newspapers.
Susana Moodie, (1803-1885) pioneer author.
Source: Introduction
to Mark Hurdleston (New York ; DeWitt & Davenport, 1853)
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There isn't any
one Canada, any average Canadian, any average place, any type.
Miriam
Chapin, Author
Source: They
outgrew Bohemia (1960) |
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Canada
preserving energy and industry with sobriety will overcome all
obstacles, and in time will place the very poorest family in a
position of substantial comfort that no personal exertion alone
could have procured for them elsewhere.
Catherine
Parr Traill, (1802-1899) pioneer author.
Source:
The Canadian Settler's Guide (1855) |
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Canadians can be radical, but
they must be radical in their own peculiar way, and that way must be
in harmony with our national traditions and ideals.
Agnes MacPhail, (1890-1954) First woman elected to
the Canadian Parliament Source; Speech before
the Canada Club, Toronto, March 4, 1935. |
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The Canadian cannot get along
without his newspaper an more than an American without his tobacco.
Susana Moodie, pioneer author.
Source: Mark Hurdleston (New York ; Dewitt &
Davenport, 1853) |
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Canadian women,, while they retain the bloom and freshness of youth,
are exceedingly pretty; but these charms soon fade, owing, perhaps,
to the fierce extremes of their climate, or the withering effect of
the dry, metallic air of stoves, and their going to early into
company and being exposed, while yet children to the noxious
influence of late hours, and the sudden change from heated rooms to
the cold, bitter, bitter winter blast
Susanna
Moodie – Early pioneer and author. Source: Roughing it in
the bush pg 221, 1852. |
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If these sketches should prove the means of deterring one family
from sinking their property, and shipwrecking all their hope, by
going to reside in the backwoods of Canada, I shall consider myself
amply repaid for revealing the secrets of the prison-house, and feel
that I have not toiled and suffered in the wilderness in vain.
Susanna Moodie early pioneer and author.
Source: Roughing it in the bush Vol. 2 1852
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My love for
Canada
was a feeling very nearly allied to that which the condemned
criminal entertains for his cell- his only hope of escape being
through the portals of the grave.
Susanna Moodie
early pioneer and author.
Source: Roughing
it in the bush Vol. 1 1852 |
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Has Canada no
poet to describe the glories of his parent land – no painter that
can delineate her matchless scenery of land and wave? Are her
children dumb and blind, that they leave to strangers the task of
singing her praise?
Susanna Moodie
(1803-1885) Early pioneer and author in Introduction to Mark
Hurdlestone, 1853. |
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ON being a girl guide |
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Each goal attained was
like a new badge. Guiding taught me to see goals and achieve them.
Dr Roberta Bondar -
first Canadian woman is space.
Source : Girl guide calendar
Chaque objectif attaint
était comme un nouvelle badge. Le Guidisme m’a appris ame fixer des objetifs
et à les atteindre. |
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Each goal attained was
like a new badge. Guiding taught me to see goals and achieve them.
Dr Roberta Bondar -
first Canadian woman is space.
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
Chaque objectif attaint
était comme un nouvelle badge. Le Guidisme m’a appris ame fixer des objetifs
et à les atteindre. |
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Guiding gave me
self-respect and a sense of ability to do things. It helped give me
confidence as an adult to follow my heart.
Heather Bishop, Canadian folk singer and social activist.
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
Le Guidism m'a appris le respect de moi-même et le
sens de la capacité de faire les choses. Il m'a aidée à acquéir la confiance
nécessaire en tant qu'adulte, pour suivre l'élan de mon coeur. |
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Guiding was invaluable
in the way it helped to develop leadership skills. It gave me confidence in
myself.
Kathy Kreiner,
Canadian Olympic gold medalist in skiing.
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
Le Guidisme m'a rendu un service précieux en m'aidant à développer les
capacités de chef de file. Il m'a donné confiance en moi. |
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For a young Guide,
Guiding was a feeling of togetherness and team spirit, which led to lasting
friendships.
Sheila Copps,
Canadian politician and author.
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
à une jeune Guide, le Guidism donnait un sentiment d'unité et l'esprit
d'équipe, ce qui m'a permis de nouer des liens d'amitié durables.
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My Guide leader taught
me about kindness, helping others and integrity and honour.
Dini Petty,
Canadian journalist and TV personality.
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
Ma cheftaine Guide m'a appris la bonté, la nécessite d'aider les autres,
l'intégrité et l'honneur. |
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Camping with Guides was
an experience in learning to live with other people that I'll never forget.
Doris Anderson,
Canadian journalist, editor, author and feminist.
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
Aller en camping avec les Guides m'a enseigné a vivre avec d'autres, c'est
une expérience que je n'oublerai jamais. |
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I learned the priceless
skills of co-operation - how to work together towards a common goal.
Carole Taylor,
Journalist, Canadian TV. journalist, municipal politician and business
woman.
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
J'ai appris le aptitudes précieuses de la collaboration - la faculté de
travailler ensemble en vue d'un objetif commun. |
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Guiding opened me to the
needs of the individual, the community and of the world.
Dr. Margaret
Catley-Carlson, Canadian career diplomat and executive officer.
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
Le Guidism m'a fait connaitre les besoins de l'individu, de la collectivité
et du monde. |
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Guiding helped me to
develop leadership skills, self-confidence and appreciation of others.
Jean Augustine,
Canadian politician, first black woman elected to the Canadian House of
Commons.
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
Le Guidisme m'a aidée à accquérir les aptitudes de chef de file, la
confiance en moi et l'appréciation pour les autres. |
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Guiding provided me with
a sense of belonging and achievement. Also teamwork, self-discipline and new
skills.
Maureen McTeer,
Canadian lawyer
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
Le Guidisme m'a donné un sentiment d'appartenance et d'accomplissement. Il
m'a aussi appris le travail d'équipe, l'autodiscipline et de nouvelles
aptitudes. |
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[In Guiding] I felt a
sense of camaraderie and community I have kept all my life.
Andrea Martin,
Canadian Actress
Source : Girl guide calendar1989
J'y ai connu un esprit de carmaraderie et de communauté que j'ai conservé
toute ma vie. |
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Girl
Guides is a great organization and one that gives you endless
opportunities for girls and women to be leaders and contribute to
Canadian society.
Grete
Hale, Board Chair Morrison Lamothe Inc. and community leader.
Source:
Canadian Guider V. 75 no. 1 Winter 2005 pg. 17. |
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ON
being a woman
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Femaleness, as any
doctor will tell you, is savage.
Dr Marion Hillard - Canadian Doctor
Source : http://www.canadianquotations.com/women.html |
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I think
women can save civilization.
Emily Murphy - Judge and
one of the "Famous Five".
Source: Poster
produced by the Famous Five Foundation.
Je pense que les femmes peuvent sauver la
civilsation. |
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IIn junior high a
boy poured water down my shirt and yelled: "now maybe they'll grow."
Pamela Anderson (1967- )- Buxom actress.
Source: A Canadian woman's wit and wisdom. Compiled by Cori Howard New York:
Nine Publishers Inc, 2004 pg 40. |
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People still
speak of womanhood as if it were a disease.
Nellie McClung - (1873-1951) politician Source:
A Canadian woman's wit and wisdom. Compiled by Cori Howard New York: Nine
Publishers Inc, 2004 pg 55. |
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The woman who enriches
her husband with her admiration and her ready response gets her reward on
hearth, from her husband
Dr. Marion
Hilliard (1902-1958)
Source: A woman
Doctor looks at love and life (1956) |
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The heart of a woman is
seldom cold to those who cherish her offspring.
Catherine Parr Traill,
(1802-1899) pioneer author.
Source:
Canadian Crusoes (1897) |
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Do for it! and
don't let the basta*** get you down. Women can do anything!
Julia Levy, Biochemist. Source: Source:
Claiming the Future; the inspiring lives of twelve Canadian women scientists
and scholars. Markham, ON : Pembroke Publishers, 1991 pg. 23
Ayez de l'audace! Et ne laisse personne
vous décourager. Les femmes peuvent tout faire!
Julia Levy, biochemiste. Source: Se
Batir un avenir: la vie facinante de douze canadiennes érudites. Markham, ON
: Pembroke Publishers, 1991 pg. 29 |
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Women accomplish many things throughout their lives, but so much of it is
taken for granted and not applauded as it should be.
Harriet Grant, Author. Source: Our Grandmothers, Ourselves;
reflections of Canadian women. Edited by Gina Valle (Vancouver: Raincoast
Books, 1999) p. 41
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[Mama]…maintained traditional family values and still worked toward change.
I have come to realize that I can be a mother, educator, wife, feminist –
each identity not exclusive of the other but impacting on each other and on
my development as a woman.
Karen Diaz, Author.
Source: Our Grandmothers, ourselves;
reflections of Canadian women. Edited by Gina Valle (Vancouver: Raincoast
Books, 1999) p. 133.
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The usual statement is that I am a remarkable woman because I
can do it; the implication is that the average women is too dumb to succeed
at a man's task - and I resent that implication, for it is false.
E.
Cora Hind. (1861-1942) Journalist and agriculturist.
Source: Time Links: The
historical web site about Manitoba in the decade from 1910 to 1920.
timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0004.htm (accessed March 2007)
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Up to the age of 18 a
woman needs good parents, from 18-35 she needs good looks, from 35-55 she
needs personality and from 55 on , she needs money.
Holly Armstrong. Public Relations
consultant. Source: Speech to the
Lemington Kiwanis Club, Liberty
Magazine, September 1963. |
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Empower women and you
will see a decrease in poverty, illiteracy, disease and violence.
Michaelle Jean
(1957- ) Governor General of Canada 2006- Source: Speech
on the occasion of International Women’s Day Kabul Afghanistan, Thursday
March 8, 2007 |
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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.
Nellie McClung (1873-1951) stated in 1910. Source: The
rural Womyn Zone. Rural women in Canada
http://ruralwomyn.net/canada_women.html
(Accessed February 3, 2008) |
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I am well aware
there's always going to be men who are physically stronger than I am. I
think women make up for that difference in mental tenacity. It is important
for women to get out and challenge themselves There isn't anything stopping
women from doing it whatsoever.
Denise Martin, First Canadian woman to reach
the North Pole (1997) Source: People: Denise Martin. Section
15.ca (accessed May 23, 2008) |
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Women Perhaps do
things differently from men, who would probably think more about goals and
distances and such. I think we paid attention to our emotional wellbeing and
how er could encourage each other. A group of women out on the ice needs to
be creative about some of the physical problems we encountered. We relied on
each other. And we made just as good time as some of the male trips.
Denise Martin, First Canadian woman to reach
the North Pole (1997) Source: People: Denise Martin. Section
15.ca (accessed May 23, 2008) |
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And we women to whom
has been committed the trust of mothering the world must rid ourselves of
fear - and unite together in all countries to protect and save the human
race.
Ishbel, Countess of Aberdeen wife of Governor General
of Canada, in her President's address to the International Council of Women,
Dunbroonik, 1936. |
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A woman is like a
tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
former First Lady of the US, author and lecturer.
Source:
www.quotedb.com
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ON courage |
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Surely the
true definition of courage is to do the thing you are afraid to do
Georgia Binnie Clark -
(1871-1947) Canadian farmer
Source: Rebel
women : Achievements beyond the ordinary ( Series - Amazing stories)
by Linda Kupecek. Canmore, AB : Altitude Publishing, 2003.
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ON
doctors and medicine |
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Words of fire will
surly be spoken in defense of the unborn person and they will convert our
hearts and minds. They must, or our society will perish.
Ann Roche Muggeridge, journalist, author.
Globe and Mail, February 2, 1988 on ruling of the Supreme Court of
Canada. Source Dictionary of Canadian Quotations by John
Robert Columbo (Toronto: Stoddart, 1991) p 2. |
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The abortion issue. It's a
wonder that we still describe it as such when neither side can bear
to listen to the other's arguments and no one can ever really win.
Anne Collins, Journalist. in an article Birth enforcement,
Saturday Night, November 1989. Source:
Dictionary of Canadian Quotations by John Robert Columbo
(Toronto; Stoddart, 1991. p 2. |
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Non Canadians |
A male gynecologist is
like an auto mechanic who never owned a car.
Carrie Snow - American screenwriter and actor. |
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ON
education |
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The want of education and moral training is
the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
Nature,
reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay;
but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
Susanna Moodie -(1803-1885) Canadian author. Source: Life in the Clearing, 1853 |
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Educate a boy and you
educate a man. Educate a girl and you educate a family.
Adelaide Hoodless
(1857-1910)- Canadian social activist and founder of the
Women's Institutes.
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I think teenagers in the [United]
States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things.
Like school is very different, it’s not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers
see it as a much more serious place.
Neve Campbell - actress Source:
www. thinkexist.com |
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Without knowledge
the world is bereft of culture. And so we must be educators and students
both.
Roberta Bondar
(1945- )- Canada's
first woman in space.
Source http://www.robertabondar.ca |
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A child's individuality is the
divine spark in him. Let it burn.
Agnes Deans Cameron - educator, adventurer, writer
and lecturer. Source: Lind L. Hale "Agnes
Deans Cameron" Dictionary of Canadian biography Vo. XIV Pg 169.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a hearth
to be lighted.
Irene Parlby - 1868-1905. - politician and member of
the "Famous Five" Source: The reluctant
politician: the story of Irene Parlby [videorecording] Toronto :
White Pine pictures, 2002 (Series : a scattering of seeds)
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There is no use
trying to train the mind of a child when his body is starved or
abused...
Nina
Moore Jamieson, author.
Source: The
Hockey Stick (1921) |
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These public schools are the
bedrock of the society we have built, and public libraries have a
place right alongside them. The two are interwoven. They are the
warp and woof of our democracy. We still need to ensure that all our
citizens have this access to knowledge, to the skills and
opportunities that they need if they are to participate responsibly
in society. Our schools and libraries are essential to this success,
to the social equality that Canadians are working so hard to build.
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne
Clarkson, Governor General of Canada. Source: Speech on the Occasion of a
Luncheon Hosted by the Regina Public Library, Regina, Monday May 16,
2005. http;//www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4443 (accessed May
18, 2005.
Ces écoles publiques sont la
pierre d'assise de la société que nous avons bâtie, et les
bibliothèques publiques se situent au même rang. Les unes ne vont
pas sans les autres. Ensemble, elles forment la chaîne et la trame
de notre démocratie. Il faut continuer de veiller à ce que tous les
citoyens aient accès au savoir, aux compétences et aux occasions
dont ils ont besoin pour pouvoir participer d'une manière
responsable à la société. Nos écoles et nos bibliothèques sont
essentielles à ce succès, à l'égalité sociale que les Canadiens
s'efforcent tant d'atteindre.
Son Excellence la très honorable Adrienne Clarkson
Source: Discours à l’occasion d’un
déjeuner offert par la Bibliothèque publique de Regina Regina, le
lundi 16 mai 2005 (trouvé May 18, 2005) |
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Take a smattering of everything.
Enjoy life and do what interests you.
Charlotte Keen, geophysicist
Source: Claiming the Future; the inspiring lives of twelve Canadian
women scientists and scholars. Markham, ON : Pembroke Publishers,
1991 pg. 19
...d'étudier un peur de tout, de
profiter de al vie de de fair ce qui les intéresse.
Charlotte Keen, Géophysicienne
Source: Se Batir un
avenir: la vie facinante de douze canadiennes érudites. Markham, ON
: Pembroke Publishers, 1991 pg. 21 |
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Education is intellectual travel
- go out with confidence and explore the world with your mind and
your own eyes.
Geraldine Kenney-Wallace, Chemist/physicist
Source:
Claiming the Future; the inspiring lives of twelve Canadian women
scientists and scholars. Markham, ON : Pembroke Publishers, 1991 pg.
44
Etudier,
c'est voyager par l'ésprit - partez avec confiance, ouvrez bien vos
yeux, explorez le monde en vous servant de toutes vos faculteé
intellectuelles.
Geraldine
Kenney-Wallace, chemiste/physicienne.
Source:
Se Batir un avenir: la vie facinante
de douze canadiennes érudites. Markham, ON : Pembroke Publishers,
1991 pg. 51 |
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Without knowledge, the world is bereft of culture. And so we must be
educators and students both. At some point, an educator must broaden
the net to include all issues relevant to humanity's challenges.
Roberta Bondar. First Canadian
woman in space, photographer, environmentalist, author.
Source: Roberta Bondar Website
http://www.robertabondar.com
(Accessed March 2007) |
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The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier
that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason,
and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride
was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
Susanna Moodie Early pioneer and author. Source: Life
in the clearing 1853 Chapter 3. |
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ON
environment |
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There’s an old saying which
goes: Once the last tree is cut and the last river poisoned, you will find
you cannot eat your money.
Joyce McLean - Canadian Director , Environmental Affairs, Toronto Hydro Energy Services
Inc.
Source: http://canadianquotations.com |
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Get outside. Be Outside. We're
living in a society where it's increasingly possible not to interact
with the natural world. That is a very dangerous thing.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki. Source:
Influential and intriguing Canadians by Stephanie Kim Gibson.
(Rubicon Books, 2003) |
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ON
equality |
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…the roots of CAAWS lie in
the consistent under-representation of women in all facets of sport that has
left women
mute and frustrated.
The Canadian
Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS)
Source: http://www.caaws.ca |
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Feminism is based
on social justice, for it claims but the equality of rights and possibility
between men and women.
Idola Saint-Jean - 1880-1945. - social activist.
Source: 100 Canadian heroines : famous
and forgotten faces by Merna Forester Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2004 pg
221. |
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We still think of a
powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood -
Canadian author
Source: quotedb.com
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I do not want to
be the angel of any home, I want for myself what I want for other women,
Absolute equality. After that is secured then men and women can take turns
at being angels.
Agnes Machphail, Canadian politician , Canada's first woman
Member of Parliament.
Source : Women in History
www.niagara.com/~merrwill/quotes.html |
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I consider it downright
impertinence for a man on a farm to talk about supporting his wife. When she
cooks his meals and sews
and mends for him and his
children from dawn until dusk, what is she doing if she is not supporting
herself?
Francis Marion Beyon -
Canadian author Source: Women in History www.niagara.com/~merrwill/quotes |
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Women should have economic
security on a basis of equality with men. No woman can be free so long as
she is
economically dependent upon a man no
matter how kid or generous that man my be.
Gertrude Telford - Canadian pacifist and social activist.
Source: Women in history www.niagara.com/~merrwill/quotes
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The women who have achieved
success in the various fields of labour have won the victory for us, but
unless we all follow
up and press onward the advantage
will be lost. Yesterday’s successes will not do for today!
Nellie McClung
(1873-1951)- Canadian suffragist and author.
Source: Women in history
www.niagara.com/~merrwill/quotes |
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Women are not persons in
matters of rights and privileges.
British North
America Act, 1867.
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I do not want to be the
angel of any home. I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute
equality. After that is secured then men and women can take turns at being
angels.
Agnes Macphail - Canada's first woman
Member of Parliament. Source:
Canada Monthly, June 1963. |
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We sought to establish a personal
individuality of women.
Henrietta Muir Edwards -
one of the "Famous Five"
Sources:
Poster produced by the Famous Five Foundation. |
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A woman's guess is much more
accurate than a man's certainty.
Flo Whyard - Journalist and editor, former Yukon Council Member
Source: The Gazette, University of Western Ontario, Spring
2004. |
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Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it.
Rosemary Brown - Canadian politician, first black
woman elected to parliament |
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To me it is a dreadful thing
that women should not only bear the physical agony of child bearing
as a result of sin or weakness, but should bear a stigma of shame
all through life when the men, the partners in their degradation
[are] not only allowed to go 'scot free' but [are] socially accepted
in the circles from which the women are outcasts.
Cairine Wilson - first woman appointed to the
Canadian Senate 1930. Source : "Senator
Cairine Wilson - woman" by Norma Phillips Muir in Canadian
Home Journal June 1930 pg. 96 as quoted in the book First
person : a biography of Cairine Wilson, Canada's first woman
senator by Valerie Knowles Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1988
pg. 94. |
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Building
equality is lots of mortar and once in awhile a brick is put in
place with lots more mortar. It is a lot of work and it takes time.
Nancy Ruth, co-founder of CoolWomen.ca and Leaf.
Source: Notes from a speech given in Ottawa October
21, 2004. |
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...women have not only proved
their capacity for governing great nations, but have shewn [sic]
wonderful capacity of affairs and proved herself to be a true
helpmate and co-worker, instead of a servant and plaything of a man!
Anna Leonowens - 1831-1915 author and
educator. Source: Anna Leonowens by Leslie
Smith Dow Beach, N.S. : Pottersfield Press 1991 pg 108. SEE ALSO 100
Canadian heroines; famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forester
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2004 pg 134 |
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The true
liberation of women cannot take place without the liberation of me.
Thérèse Casgrain,
(1896-1981) Social activist. Source: A woman in a man's world,
1972 |
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I am absolutely convinced that women’s participation in the life of
cities and villages guarantees progress.
Michaelle Jean Governor General of Canada
2006- Speech on the occasion of International Women’s Day Kabul
Afghanistan, Thursday March 8, 2007 Source
www.gg.ca (accessed April 2007)
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I do hope that it [women’s war efforts sic] will in
some measure open the eyes of humanity to the truth that the women
who bear and train the nation’s sons should have some voice in the
political issues that may send those sons to die on the
battlefields.’
Lucy
Maude Montgomery
(1874-1942) speaking
about extending votes to women. Author of Anne of Green Gables.
Source:
http://confederationcentre.com/english/collecting/collecting-1-6.html
(accessed June 2008) |
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One of the things that struck me as a child was that
my own people were not in positions of authority, and I thought that
was unacceptable and I guess in a way I felt that in some small way
I would be able to change that by going on to higher education.
Roberta Jamieson (1953- ) First aboriginal woman lawyer in
Canada.
Source: Roberta Jamieson: Chief Six Nations of the Grand River
Territory. Contemporary Canadian Biographies. Thompson Gale,
August 2003. (Accessed online June 2008.) |
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We’re still not graduating the numbers we should be.
We could have more doctors, more lawyers, more MBA’s. And we need
them desperately. We know from experience that when our people serve
our own people, we have incredible success. (2003)
Roberta Jamieson (1953- )
Chief
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.
Source: Contemporary Canadian Biographies. Thompson Gale,
August 2003. (Accessed online June 2008.) |
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I’ve never understood why
people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they
have forgotten their own.
Margaret Atwood -
Canadian author source: http//:memorablequotations.com/atwood |
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Twenty can’t be expected to
tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty’s
eternal love affairs.
Emily Carr - Canadian
artist source: http://www.memorablequotations.com/carr
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I am not
interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You're as old as you
feel.
Elizabeth Arden - Canadian born beauty entrepreneur.
Source :
http://www.houseofquotes.com/authors/Elizabeth_Arden.htm |
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Age doesn't always bring wisdom,
but I figure that by the time you reach 60 you ought to have realized that
you can live any way you want to as long as you can handle the fallout.
Corinne Allan, Canadian social activist Source Ya Ya Canada
www.yayacanada.com
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This may be the
only culture [North America]
that does not respect old age, or know that the elderly are the keepers of
the stories, mysteries and tribal lore of the culture.
Betty Nickerson, Canadian author as told to the annual
conference of the Canadian Association of Gerontology.
Source: Harbour Publishing
www.harbourpublishing.com July 4, 2004.
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Age doesn't bring
wisdom, but I figure that by the time you reach 60 you ought to have
realized that you can live any way you want to as long as you can handle the
fallout. And with death skulking nearer all the time, how bad could any
earthly consequences be?
Corinne Allan - Ottawa Ontario
Source : YayaCanada .com
October 2004. |
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Age is just a
number on your license. I may be pushing the limits, but every day I get up
to work out, I don't feel old, I feel eager to go out and carry out my
mission.
Lori Ann Muenger - when she was 38 years old and an
Olympic gold medal winner in cycling. Source: "Olympic track:
Muenger scores sprint gold for Canada by Timothy Carlson in Velo News: the
journal of competitive cycling. Byline dated August 22, 2004.
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After the fruit
has got its growth is should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live
long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squish.
Emily Carr - (1871-1945) Artist.
Source: Canadian Cyberquotes. Ottawa Citizen December 31, 2004 Pg F11.
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Sometimes very
young children can look at the old, and a look passes between them,
conspiratorial, sly and knowing. It's because neither are human to the
middling ones...
Margaret Lawrence, award winning author Source: The Stone
angel (1964) |
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Those that we envied at
20 we pity at 30.
Susanne Marney, author.
Source The
Unhappy house (1909) |
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Grandmothers should be ruling the world. I say this without a hint
of a joke. Grandmothers see the future in a way others do not. As
the world of the flesh decays, the life of the spirit flowers.
Grandmothers a a field of wildly blooming exquisite and riotous
flowers.
Joy Kogawa
(1936- ) author and ethnic activist. Order of Canada
Source: Our Grandmothers,
Ourselves; reflections of Canadian women. Edited by Gina Valle.
(Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 1999) forward.
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As a species,
grannies are uniquely loving, long-sighted - viscerally connected to
past and future. In a cut-flower world grandmothers connect. Their
boundless hearts encompass the generations.
Joy
Kogawa (1936- ) author and ethnic activist. Order of Canada.
Source:
Our Grandmothers, Ourselves; reflections of Canadian women. Edited
by Gina Valle.(Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 1999) forward
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Age is a cage and I go there,
hands up, nudged by a fake revolver.
Phyllis Webb, Author. Source : Small satisfaction,
1962. |
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I've
reached an age where I can't use my youth as an excuse for my
ignorance any more.
Janet Bonellie, Source: Tamarack Review No 44 1967 pg 17.
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I’m tired
of this ‘senior stuff’. It’s getting boring. I’m tired of everyone
thinking I’m so great just because I’m old!
Rosaleen Diana Leslie Dickson
(1921- ) Journalist, publisher, author, webmaster, playright,
mother, and great granny. Source: Rosaleen Cyberqueen
by Sharon Rockey in Freelance writing.
http://www.webspinstudios.com/byline/portfolio/rosaleen.html
(accessed April 2008) |
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Another belied
of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely
in disguise.
Margaret Atwood (1939 ) Award winning author.
Source:
Http://thinkexist.com (Accessed March 23, 2008) |
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[Being
retired].. I’m not held to a regular schedule as I was during my
active years and that is something I cherish very much.”
Marjorie Bowker, (1906-2006) First woman Family court judge
in Alberta.
Source:
Marjorie Bowker, 90, judge, best selling author. Toronto Star,
September 5, 2006. |
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ON Heroes |
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Society needs heroes to rejuvenate, re-energize and renew itself
with visions of the possible. That's what heroes do.
Roberta
Bondar. First Canadian woman in space, photographer,
environmentalist, author.
Source: Roberta Bondar Website
http://www.robertabondar.com (Accessed
March 2007)
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Women’s history
has taken place mostly in the private sphere, and as such has been
largely ignored.
Nicola
Lyle, Author. Source Our grandmothers,
ourselves; reflections of Canadian women. Edited by Gina Valle.
(Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 1999) p. 85
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The history of Acadians has
never been written down as see by its people. Its been written by
historians from outside. These historians sometimes had reason not
to write the truth or didn't know the truth or didn't know the small
things which become the big things , the inside story, what we in
France call la petit histoire. History is made by the kings and
lords, But la petit histoire is made by the people.
Antonine Maillet, Acadian author quoted by Isabel Vincent in the
Toronto Globe and Mail, June 24, 1989. Source:
Dictionary of Canadian Quotations by Robert Columbo. (Toronto:
Stoddart, 1991) p. 3 |
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With all the technology
in the 21st century why have they not invented the self cleaning toilet
bowl!
Dawn Monroe (1945- )
Librarian, author. Source: myself April 2008) |
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I am a marvelous
housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor - American actor who was married at least 8 times!
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I'm not going to vacuum
'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
Roseanne Barr - American actor and comedienne |
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My second favorite
household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk
bed until I faint.
Erma Bombeck - American author |
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ON
fashion |
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What
I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are --
Alanis Morissette - Canadian Pop singer
Source : Canquote http://www.ottres.ca/hconline/canquotes/canquote.html?message=&obnumber=2600 |
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If high heels were so
wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
Sue
Grafton - American author |
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ON
life |
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If
you’re not annoying somebody, you’re not really alive.
Margaret Atwood - Canadian author
Source: http://www.canadianquotations.com |
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The woman who really loves
her own children…is the woman that wants to see other peoples’ children get
their chance too.
Nellie McClung -
Canadian author, member of the Famous Five
Source: from her book Firing the
heather.
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Nobody dies from lack of
sex. It’s lack of love we die from.
Margaret Atwood - Canadian author
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Life’s an awfully lonesome
affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet
it seems to me you are
more alone while living
than even going and coming.
Emily Carr - Canadian
Artist
source: http://memorablequotations.com/carr
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Knock hard. Life is deaf.
Mimi Parent (1924 - ) internationally known award winning
surrealist artist. Source: Surrealist women : an
international anthology by Penelope Rosemount (Austen, University of Texas,
1998) |
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Suttee, the practice
whereby the widow throws herself on her husband’s funeral pyre, has been
outlawed in India. They still
practice a subtle form of it in Canada.
You die by inches, of loneliness.
Betty Jane Wyle -
Canadian author from her book: Beginnings : a book for widows.
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I want to ask you
gentlemen, if I cannot give consent to my own death, then whose body is
this? Who owns my life?
Sue Rodriguez - a
Canadian victim of ALS
( amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, also known as Lou Gerig’s disease). This question was
posed on a videotaped
presentation to a House of Common’s subcommittee in November 1992. Sue
Rodriguez urged amendments to the section of
the Canadian Criminal Code
that makes it a crime for any person to assist in another persons suicide
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The difference between
people and rats is that people will keep heading down the same old tunnel
even though the cheese
is no longer there
Pamela Peck - Canadian
Cultural Anthropologist and author.
Source: http://www.canadianquotations.com |
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I hope people will finally
come to realize that there is only one “race” – the human race – and that we
are all members of it.
Margaret Atwood -
Canadian author Source:
quotedb.com
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Anyone who has gumption
knows what it is , and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is, so there
is no need of
defining it.
Lucy Maud
Montgomery - Canadian Author Source: www.thinkexist.com |
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It’s how you deal with
failure that determines how you achieve success
Charlotte
Whitton - First Canadian women mayor of a major urban centre.
Source: thinkexist.com
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Some people achieve
happiness and some just live in Toronto.
Emily Murphy -
former Judge and author of Janey Canuk. |
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Worrying helps you some - it seems as if you were doing something when you
were worrying.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -
Canadian author from her book : Anne of Green Gables, 1908 |
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The purpose of a woman's life is...to
make the best possible contribution to the generation in which she is
living.
Louise McKinney- 1868-1931 - one of the
Famous Five. Source: Poster produced by
the Famous Five Foundation.
La femme vit...pour contribuer le
maximum à la vitalité de sa génération. |
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Every day I tell myself
'This is not a dress rehearsal." you only get one life.
Nia Vardalos,
Canadian actress and play write. |
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Most of us do not
attempt to realize a fraction of our capabilities. Yet most of us could live
not one buy many different kinds of lives, each full, intensive and
complete.
Helen Gregory MacGill - 1867-1947. -
Judge and social activist.
Source:
A not unreasonable claim : women and reform in Canada, 1880's-1920's
by Linda Kealey. Toronto: Women's Educational Press, 1979 pg. 7 SEE ALSO:
100 Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forester
Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2004 pg 148. |
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Life is something
that happens to you while you're making other plans.
Margaret Ellis Miller (1915-1994) award winning crime fiction
writer. Source: Books and
writers
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mmillar.htm
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I tell what gives
satisfaction in life: you plant a seed and years later, you see that
something is growing. Maybe you are no more in charge, no more connected
with it but you know that it was originally your idea; you suggest this or
that should be done. And somehow it worked out all right and it is
flourishing now. You are getting a flower out of it.
Sonja Bata, business woman and founder
of the Bata Show Museum. Source: "Profile; Sonja
Batta." Good Times, April 2004 pg 10-15.
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I have come to
believe that life satisfaction/quality of life lies in the ordinary, not in
the exceptional. We have to be deriving pleasure from our everyday
encounters, the people in our lives and the activities that we do routinely
to have any level of contentedness with our lives.
Dorothy "Dot" Pringle, nursing leader,
teacher and mentor. Source:
http://www.nursingleadership.net/NL161abouteditor.html
(March 2005)
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It is useless grousing
over the inevitable. If you treat life as a joke and not take it too
seriously, then you will be happy here.
Monica Hopkins
(1884-1974) Letter writer and rancher's wife.
Source: Alberta
Originals by Brian Brennan (Calgary : Fifth House, 2001.
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Evolution of life on Earth is rooted in the theory of survival of the
fittest, favoring those with the most adaptable gene combination.
Roberta Bondar. First
Canadian woman ins space, photographer, environmentalist, author.
Source: Roberta Bondar Website
http://www.robertabondar.com/latest_writings.php
(Accessed March 2007) |
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We still need dreams as
adults and it amazes me how many people either deny themselves this
experience or are so tied to the reality of survival that they fail to grasp
the importance of being able to dream. We’re talking conscious dreaming here
as opposed to what occurs when we are asleep, although they may be linked
subconsciously.
Roberta Bondar,
first Canadian woman in space, photographer, environmentalist, author.
Source: Roberta
Bondar Website
http://www.robertabondar.com/latest_writings.php
(Accessed March 2007) |
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We’re egocentric life
forms. This is the cradle of civilization, when just statically speaking
there have to be other systems out there. I mean, there are kajillions of
billions of stars -- why wouldn’t there be other life forms.
Roberta Bondar.
First Canadian woman in space, photographer, environmentalist, author.
Source: Roberta Bondar Website
http://www.robertabondar.com ‘Roberta Bondar’s
rich colours.’ by Elizabeth Renzetti. The Globe and Mail, April 12
2005 p. 12. (accessed March 2007) |
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Life’s a journey.
Basically we’re just hanging out and seeing what we can do with what we
have. I can’t imagine not exploring oneself. It’s as important and as
exploring outside ourselves.
Roberta Bondar.
First Canadian woman in space, photographer, environmentalist, author.
Source: Roberta Bondar Website
http://www.robertabondar.com
Sears-Outlook Magazine. by John Lowsbrough Spring 2006
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No matter where you find yourself, life’s an adventure and
you’ve got to seize the moment and take it and and go with and make
something out of it. Joan
Weir, (1928 - ) author
Source: Joan Weir by David Jenkinson, CM Magazine
http://umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/weir.html (accessed January 2007)
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Tears are the
best balm that can be applied to the anguish of the heart.
Susanna Moodie Early pioneer and
author. Source: Roughing it in the bush, 1832.
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I want to walk through
life instead of being dragged through it.
Alanis Morissette (1974- )
Award winning singer. Source:
Http://thinkexist.com (Accessed March 23, 2008)
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We should
regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into
the future with us.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) Internationally acclaimed author of
Anne of Green Gables. Source:
http://thinkexist.com
(Accessed March 23, 2008)
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If
you are in the middle of a big family, as I was, you had be able to mediate
a little bit or you are not going to survive.
Roberta Jamieson (1953- ) first aboriginal woman lawyer in Canada.
Source: Roberta Jamieson: Chief Six Nations of the Grand
River Territory. Contemporary Canadian Biographies. Thompson Gale,
August 2003. (Accessed online June 2008.)
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Never retract, never
explain, never apologize – get the thing done and let them howl!
Nellie McClung -
Canadian feminist, Member of parliament and author.
Source:
www.canadianquotations.com |
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I am homesick. I am packing
up. I am going home but now I don’t know anymore where home is.
Marion Waddington
- Canadian author
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No. I don't think I have made it. Not until I
sign a contract!
Pauline Lightstone Donalda - International renowned Canadian soprano. Source: Pauline Donalda : the life and
career of
a Canadian prima dona by Ruth C. Brotman. |
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Evolution cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite.
Irene Parlby - MLA for
Alberta and member of the "Famous Five"
Source;
Poster produced by the Famous Five Foundation |
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I've done my best, and
I begin to see what is meant by the 'joy of the strife'. Next to trying
and
winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Lucy Maud
Montgomery - Canadian author.
Source:
Anne of Green Gables, 1908 |
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Having somebody that you admire and
respect tell you that you've done something well, make an enormous impact.
Paulette Bourgeois - Canadian Author .
Source: Meet
Canadian authors and illustrators by Allison
Gertridge [Toronto : Scolastic, 2002] |
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I don't define myself by my job...what interests me is the sort of person
I am.
Kady MacDonald Denton. Canadian author.
Source: Meet Canadian authors and illustrators by
Allison Gertridge [Toronto : Scolastic, 2002] |
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I think also it is a
duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has the
right to practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it
merely because she marries. i cannot conceive how women's colleges,
inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded
or maintained denying such a principle.
Harriet Brooks - 1876-1933. - first
Canadian women nuclear physicist....written when she was informed that she
would no longer be employed if she married! Source:
100 Canadian heroines :
famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forester Toronto : Dundurn
Press, 2004 pg 54.
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Things don't change
by themselves, you have to be active to mould the environment in which you
are going to practice.
Ginette Lemire
Rodger PhD - winner of the 2004 Jeanne Mance Award, Canada's top nursing
award.
Source : Ottawa Citizen, City Section, June 2, 2004.
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I still get
butterflies every time I step on a stage whether to compete, present or be
interviewed but I love it. I feel more comfortable giving the audience what I
think they came to see.
Jaime Koeppe,
Actress and fitness model
Source: Canadian
Cyberquotes, Ottawa Citizen October 23, 2004. |
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Applause and
recognition are the handmaidens of creativity
Nell Shipman,
(1892-1970) Canadian born silent film star, producer and author.
Source : Rebel Women; Achievements beyond the ordinary. (Series Amazing
stories ) by Linda Kupecek. Canmore, AB : Altitude Publishing, 2003
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Acting is not being emotional, but
being able to express emotion.
Kate Reid - 1930-1993 -actor of stage, movies
and TV.
Source: Canadian women's whit and wisdom. Compiled
by Cori Howard New York : Nine Publishing, 2004 Pg 21. |
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Nothing's impossible.
It's what you decide your limits are.
Lori Ann Muenzer, Olympic gold
medalist (2004) track cycling. Source:
Athens 2004: the Olympic Games. Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
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Being an artist is
not a career. It is a compulsive passion that, if you're very lucky,
provides both great personal satisfaction and a lasting statement of who and
what we are as a people.
Sandra Bromley, multidisciplinary artist
Source
http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/ExpressNews/articles/printer.cfm?p_ID+6003 |
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No one knows the
future, so you should invest yourself as strongly and as deeply as possible
in what you like. That is the key to being happy...then you've solved half
the problems...but only half.
Fernande Saint-Martin, art historian.
Source: Claiming the Future; the inspiring lives of twelve Canadian women
scientists and scholars. Markham, ON : Pembroke Publishers, 1991 pg. 16
Personne ne connait l'avenir. Alors
consacrez-vous à ce que vous aimez, allez-y aussi à fond que possible. C'est
ainsi que vous serez heureuses. Si vous faites cela, vous aurez résolus la
moitié du problème...mais seulement la moitié.
Fernande Saint-Martin, Professeure d'histoire de l'art.
Source: Se Batir un avenir: la vie facinante de douze
canadiennes érudites. Markham, ON : Pembroke Publishers, 1991 pg. 18.
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Don't ever let
anyone tell you that you cannot go through a particular door. Always be
prepared to go through an door that leads to your goal.
Ann Saddlemyer, literary historian.
Source: Claiming the Future; the inspiring lives of twelve Canadian women
scientists and scholars. Markham, ON : Pembroke Publishers, 1991 pg. 41.
Ne permettez jamais à personne de vous
dire que vous ne pouvex pas vous engager dans tell our telle voie. Soyez
toujours pretes à continuer jusqu'ç ce que vous atteigniez votre objectif.
Ann Saddlemyer, Historienne de la litérature.
Source: Source:
Se Batir un avenir: la vie facinante de douze canadiennes érudites. Markham,
ON : Pembroke Publishers, 1991 pg. 18.
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A given step,
however small it may appear to one, may represent a great deal to another.
Every hurdle one surpasses makes one grow. I am just glad I was given the
opportunity, resources, and support to surpass the hurdles that came my way.
Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut and first Canadian
women to board the Space Station.
Source: Canuck Quotes: Quotes
by Canadians or about Canada.
http://canadianaconnection.com/cca/canuckquotes.htm (accessed July 16,
2005)
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Success is a mixture of
skills, competence, luck and hard work: with a bit of effort, I believe the
world can be at our feet.
Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut and first Canadian women to board the
Space Station. Source: Canuck Quotes:
Quotes by Canadians or about Canada.
http://canadianaconnection.com/cca/canuckquotes.htm
(accessed July 16, 2005)
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I have discovered
that invention does not require a prerequisite of age gender, race or
ability. It needs an eye for the obvious, an ear for the earnest and a nose
for the now, a mouth for the moment and a touch of luck for the not-so
inspired.
Marjorie Fehr,
Inventor of a pet training device
Source: women of invention www.inventive women.com (accessed September
20, 2007)
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It was lack of beauty
that drove me to clowning and it was that clowning that eventually put me on
stage. I firmly believed that I owe whatever good fortune that has come my
way largely to the fact that I was born without a pretty face.
Marie Dressler
(1868-1934)
Academy award winning comic actress
Source: My own Story by Marie Dressler, Boston,
Little, Brown, 1934 Chapter 1. |
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Well thanks to God, I
soon learned to be just as happy when folks said ‘Isn’t she funny’ as if
they had ah-ed and oh-ed and exclaimed ‘Isn’t she beautiful.’
Marie
Dressler
(1868-1934)
Academy award winning comic actress
Source: My own Story by Marie Dressler, Boston,
Little, Brown, 1934 Chapter 1. |
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I think Oscar Wild
wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that
he pierced his breast and let his hearts blood turn the white rose red.
Maybe this sounds very sentimental but for anybody who has loved a career as
much as I've loved mine, there can be no short cuts.
Mary Pickford,
(1892-1979)
Academy award winning actress and movie mogul Source: Mary
Pickford Revealed. |
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I used to say, just think of
yourself as on a horse with blinders on. You have a goal, go directly to
it. I didn’t get discouraged.
Elizabeth “Betty” MacRae (1941 - ) first Canadian Woman
Neurosurgeon, Source: Herstory: The Canadian women’s Calendar 2007.
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I
was told I should be a beautician, a hairdresser, by a government official,
because this is something I could aspire to. Now, nothing against
hairstylists, but that’s not what I aspired to.
Roberta Jamieson (1953- ) First aboriginal woman lawyer in Canada.
Source: Roberta Jamieson: Chief Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.
Contemporary Canadian Biographies. Thompson Gale, August 2003. (Accessed
online June 2008.)
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I have yet to hear a man
ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria
Steinem - noted American feminist and author |
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ON
love |
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The Eskimos had fifty-two
names for snow because it was important to them. There ought to be as many
for love.
Margaret Atwood - Canadian
author Source:
quotedb.com |
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I'm
glad my courting days were over before cars came! There is no romance
whatever in a car. A man can't safely
drive it with one arm. And loitering
is impossible.
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Canadian author.
Source: personal correspondence of LMM,
letter to friend 1919 |
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Nothing in love is small. Those
who await grand occasions to express there tenderness do not know
how to love. Marie-Louise-Félicité Angers -
1845-1924 first French Canadian woman novelist.
Source: Laure Conan Angéine de Montbrun. Quebec :
Brousseau, 1884 See Also: 100 Canadian heroines : famous and
forgotten faces by Merna Forester Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2004 pg.
72. |
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Breaking a heard causes as much
pain as having your heart broken. It's just the price of admission
to the adult world.
Pamela Wallin - journalist and diplomat.
Source: A Canadian woman's wit
and wisdom. Compiled by Cori Howard New York: Nine Publishers Inc,
2004 pg 60 |
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Nobody dies from lack of sex.
It's lack of love we die from.
Margaret Atwood, award winning author.
Source: A Canadian woman's wit and
wisdom. Compiled by Cori Howard New York: Nine Publishers Inc, 2004
pg 71. |
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Isn't it better to wear the love
of one man than the admiration of half a dozen?
Sara Jeannette Duncan,
author.
Source:The Imperialist
(1904) |
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Love is so
scarce in this world that we ought to prize it, however lowly the
source from which it grows.
Susanna
Moodie, (1803-1885) pioneer author.
Source: Old
Woodruff and his three wives (1847) |
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ON
politics |
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If every intelligent
woman made it a rule to learn something about her local, state or national
government every day, more would be accomplished in a year toward
governmental reform than by all the books and pamphlets written in a
generation.
Cairine Wilson
(1885-962) First woman appointed to the Senate of Canada , 1931. She was
quoting Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source: Canadian Bar
Review 1932. |
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I think countries relate
to each other like kids in the school yard...because kids and countries act
the same. It's jus that countries are bigger and have bigger weapons to
bully people with. There's a lot of ego, a lot of "Whose got more 'Candy'
whose got more power, more people behind them.
Frieda Wishinsky (1948- )
Canadian children's author . Source:
CM Magazine profile by Dave Jenkinson
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/frofiles/wishnisky
(accessed March 2007)
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If
you don't like bad news, you should get out of the leadership business. Your
job is to hear as much bad news as there is out there and to figure out ways
of dealing with it.
Kim Campbell, (1947- ) First woman to be Prime Minister of
Canada. Source: Influential and intriguing Canadians by
Stephanie Kim Gibson, (Rubicon Books, 2003)
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If democracy is right
women should have it, if it isn't, men shouldn't have it.
May Clendenan, Western
Canadian Women's rights advocate, February 1915. Source:
Female Roles in World War Http://femalerolesinwwll.com (Accessed May 2009.)
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Non Canadians |
In politics, if you want
anything said, ask a man--if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret
Thatcher - former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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ON
poverty |
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A poor man’s road to
independence is always up-hill work. Duty fences the path on either side,
and success waves
her flag from the summit, but every step must be trod,
often in ragged garments and with bare fee, if we would reach the top.
Suzannah Moodie in 1855. - Canadian pioneer settler and
author.
Source: http://www.canadianquotations.com/poverty.html |
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Poverty is to be without
sufficient money, but it is also to have little hope for better things. It
is a feeling that one is unable to control one’s destiny, that one is
powerless in a society that respects power. The poor have very limited
access to means of making known their situation and their needs. To be poor
is to feel apathy, alienation form society, entrapment, hopelessness and to
believe that whatever you do will not turn out successfully.
Canadian Royal
Commission on the Status of Women, Report, 1970.
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People
never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most
incredible inventions - board games, recipes...we never stopped
inventing.
Lynn Johnston (1947 - ) award winning
cartoonist Source Canadian Cyberquotes in
the Ottawa Citizen Thursday December 16, 2004 pg F7,
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Honest poverty is encouraged, not despised, in Canada. Few of her
prosperous men have risen from obscurity to affluence without going
through the mill, and therefore have a fell-feeling for those who
are struggling to gain the first rung on the ladder.
Susanna Moodie Early
pioneer and author in Roughing it in the bush, 1871 |
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ON
reading and Libraries |
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Read a lot; that's what I did. It doesn't
matter what your read --- read everything--- read what you like.
Carol Matas - Canadian author.
Source: Meet
Canadian authors and illustrators by Allison Gertridge [Toronto :
Scolastic, 2002] |
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Read a
'Little'.
Jean
Little - Canadian author. Source :
author's web site |
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Books on shelves, books on stacks on tables,
books in boxes in my basement, a tall pile of books on the floor beside my
bed...sometimes I think I live in a very messy library!
Norah McClintock - Canadian author. Source: Meet
Canadian authors and illustrators by Allison Gertridge [Toronto :
Scolastic, 2002] |
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The world is changing and electronic publishing is part of threat, but there
will always be a lap waiting for a book.
Maxine Trottier - Canadian Author.
Source: Meet Canadian authors and illustrators by Allison
Gertridge [Toronto ; Scolastic, 2002] |
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Most of your brain is involved
when reading than it is when you watch television...because you are
supplying just about everything. You're the creator.
Margaret Atwood - (1939- ) Award winning
Canadian author. Source: Canadian Cyberquotes.
Ottawa Citizen, January 2, 2005 Pg B11. |
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Books can be a form of
salvation, a way out of loneliness, a method of understanding and of
being understood.
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne
Clarkson, Governor General of Canada.
Source: Speech on the Occasion of a
Luncheon Hosted by the Regina Public Library, Regina, Monday May 16,
2005. http;//www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4443 (accessed May
18, 2005.
Les livres
peuvent être d'un certain secours; ils peuvent nous sortir de la
solitude, nous aider à comprendre et à être compris
Son Excellence la
très honorable Adrienne Clarkson Source:
Discours à l’occasion d’un déjeuner offert par la Bibliothèque
publique de Regina Regina, le lundi 16 mai 2005 (trouvé May 18,
2005) |
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That's what
books did, and still do. They help us to understand, to be hopeful,
and to prepare ourselves for what comes next.
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne
Clarkson, Governor General of Canada. Source: Speech on the Occasion of a
Luncheon Hosted by the Regina Public Library, Regina, Monday May 16,
2005. http;//www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4443 (accessed May
18, 2005.
C'est ce que les livres
ont fait pour eux, et c'est ce qu'ils continuent de faire. Ils nous
aident à comprendre, à garder l'espoir et à nous préparer à ce qui
nous attend.
Son Excellence la très honorable Adrienne Clarkson
Source: Discours à l’occasion d’un
déjeuner offert par la Bibliothèque publique de Regina Regina, le
lundi 16 mai 2005 (trouvé May 18, 2005) |
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The public library really is a
kind of temple, and it ministers to the needs of the spirit as much
as it does to the requirements of our minds.
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne
Clarkson, Governor General of Canada. Source: Speech on the Occasion of a
Luncheon Hosted by the Regina Public Library, Regina, Monday May 16,
2005. http;//www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4443 (accessed May
18, 2005.
La bibliothèque publique est
réellement une espèce de temple qui répond aux besoins de notre âme
autant qu'aux besoins de notre intellect.
Son Excellence la très honorable Adrienne Clarkson
Source: Discours à l’occasion d’un
déjeuner offert par la Bibliothèque publique de Regina Regina, le
lundi 16 mai 2005 (trouvé May 18, 2005) |
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Our links to the past, our bonds
with the present, our path to a civilized tomorrow are all
maintained by libraries.
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne
Clarkson, Governor General of Canada. Source: Speech on the Occasion of a
Luncheon Hosted by the Regina Public Library, Regina, Monday May 16,
2005. http;//www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4443 (accessed May
18, 2005.
Nos liens avec le passé, nos
liens avec le présent et le chemin qui nous conduira vers un avenir
civilisé sont tous maintenus par nos bibliothèques.
Son Excellence la très honorable Adrienne Clarkson
Source: Discours à l’occasion d’un déjeuner
offert par la Bibliothèque publique de Regina Regina, le lundi 16
mai 2005 (trouvé May 18, 2005) |
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I'm convinced
that everybody who's a writer is a reader. Every Friday, as a child,
I went to the local library and took out the maximum six books. I
loved the library, and it was my second home, In New York, you
didn't have malls, and so kids would hang out and socialize in the
library.
Frieda Wishinsky (1948-
) Canadian children's author .
Source: CM Magazine profile by Dave
Jenkinson
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/frofiles/wishnisky
(accessed March 2007) |
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All the years I was growing up, I
read constantly. As soon as I finished one book, my father , a
Rhodes scholar and himself a great reader, would always bring me
three or four more books to read.
Joan Weir, (1928 -
) author
Source: Joan Weir by David Jenkinson, CM
Magazine
http://umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/weir.html
(accessed January 2007) |
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ON
self confidence |
TOP OF PAGE |
Whatever women must do they
must do twice as well as men to be thought Half as good. Luckily, this is
not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton -
(1896-1975) first woman mayor of a large urban Canadian city (Ottawa)
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The hike taught me a great
lesson – what men have done, women can more than do.
Jennie Dill - Canadian
“power walker” who walked with her husband 3,650 miles (Halifax
- Vancouver).
On the way she shot a timber wolf that attacked her husband.
Source:
www.coolwomen.ca/coolwomen/cwsite.nsf/formTimeline?OpenForm
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We all have ability. The
difference is how we use it.
Charlotte Whitton
- first woman mayor of a large urban Canadian city (Ottawa).
Source: www.thinkexist.com |
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I saw
what could be done for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
Nellie McClung - MLA of
Alberta, author and one of the "Famous Five" Source:
Poster produced by Famous Five Foundation |
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It seems to me there is
always somebody to tell you [you] can't accomplish a thing, and to
discourage you from even attempting it. If you are going to let other people
decide what you are able to do, I don't think you will ever do much of any
thing
Katherine Stinson. Pioneer aviator well known in western
Canadian skies Source: Rebel women : Achievements
beyond the ordinary ( Series , Amazing stories) by Linda Kupecek. Canmore,
AB : Altitude Publishing, 2003. |
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Perhaps if I owed my father the ability
to get into Parliament, I owed my mother the ability to stand it when I got
there.
Agnes Macphail - Politician.
Source: A Canadian woman's wit and wisdom. Compiled by Cori Howard New York:
Nine Publishers Inc, 2004 pg 97. |
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This thing that we
call 'failure' is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford - movie star and Hollywood businesswoman.
Source: A Canadian woman's wit and
wisdom. Compiled by Cori Howard New York: Nine Publishers Inc, 2004 pg 110
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It's the moment you
think you can't that you realize you can.
Céline Dion (1968- ) world
award winning singer .Source:
http://thinkexist.com
(Accessed March 23, 2008) |
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Non Canadians |
Nobody can make you feel
inferior without your permission.
Eleanor
Roosevelt - former first lady of the US,
author and lecturer |
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We cannot all do great
things but we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
- world humanitarian |
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ON society |
TOP OF PAGE |
In a society
where many traditions were formed in the first half of the 20th century and
where the world is changing, it's a good idea to revisit ideas that haven't
bee revisited for a longtime.
Jalynn H. Bennet, entrepreneur
Source: The power 50: Canada's most
influential women. National Post, March 4, 2000 |
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The test of a
prison system is the number of prisoners who never return.
Helen MacGill, (1864-1947) Judge and author.
Comment to the Canadian Penal Conference in
Montreal Source E. M. G. MacGill My mother the
judge. (Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1955) |
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ON Space |
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To fly in space
is to see the reality of earth, alone, to touch the earth after is
to see beauty for the first time.
Roberta Bondar (1945- ) First Canadian woman in
space, photographer, environmentalist, author.
Source: Roberta Bondar web site
http://www.robertabondar.com/ (accessed March 2007)
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ON sport |
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Sport is a peaceful means for people to
strive for excellence and to be the best that they can be. Conflict, armed
or otherwise,
is a means for people to destroy themselves, their
environment and the potential of the universe. Sporting organizations have
an
obligation to spread their message and help young people choose between
conflict and healthy competition.
Carol Anne Letheren -
former CEO & Secretary General, Canadian Olympic Association, IOC member
in Canada.
Source : Canquote
http://www.ottres.ca/hconline/canquotes/canquote.html?message=&obnumber=260 |
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You need
intelligence to ski. A dummy has never succeeded in a competitive
skiing--there are just too many mental problems to cope with out on
the hills.
Nancy
Greene, Olympic medalist in skiing.
Source:
Autobiography (1963) |
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ON
voting |
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“Who will mind the baby”
cried one of our public men, in great agony of spirit. “when the mother goes
to vote?” . One woman
replied that she thought she could get the person
that minded it when she went to pay her taxes – which seemed to be a fairly
reasonable proposition.
Nellie McClung - Canadian Feminist, author, member of the "Famous Five" |
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But I do hope that it will in some measure open the eyes of humanity
to the truth that the women who bear and train the nation's sons
should have some voice in the political issues that may send those
sons to die on the battlefields.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Author. Source: as spoken
to a reporter in 1915. http://imm.confererationcentre.com/eng/collecting/collecting-1-6.html
(accessed April 2007) |
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ON
writing |
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It's the most exasperating craft, but you can't
pull yourself away from it.
Linda
Granfield. Canadian author Source: Meet
Canadian authors and illustrators by Allison Gertridge [Toronto :
Scolastic, 2002] |
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Writing is like playing some sort of game...you
get so into it that the world disappears and you get to be powerful and in
charge.
Sarah Elli - Canadian author. Source: Meet
Canadian authors and illustrators by Allison Gertridge [Toronto :
Scolastic, 2002 |
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It doesn't do any good to hit the front of
your head and say 'Give me an idea!'
Monica Hughes. - Canadian author
Source: Meet Canadian authors and illustrators by Allison Gertridge
[Toronto : Scolastic, 2002] |
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I don't believe there's any such thing as making
a mistake but I believe in changes.
Brenda Clark. -
Canadian author Source: Meet Canadian
authors and illustrators by Allison Gertridge [Toronto : Scolastic,
2002] |
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If I can write a fine sentence in one day, I can be happy the whole day.
Claire Mckay - Canadian author. Source: Meet
Canadian authors and illustrators by Allison Gertridge [Toronto :
Scolastic, 2002] |
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A word after a word after a word
is power.
Margaret Atwood - 1939-
international award wining Canadian author.
Source: Canadian women's whit and wisdom. Compiled by
Cori Howard New York : Nine Publishing, 2004 Pg 13 |
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I never expect to be famous, I
merely want to have a recognized place among good workers in my
chosen profession.
Lucy Maud Montgomery - 1874-1942. - author.
Source: The alpine path : the story of my career by
Lucy Maud Montgomery Don Mills, ON : Fitzhenry and Whiteside [1974]
c1917. pg. 64 |
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When I say 'work' I only mean
writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
Margaret Lawrence - author.
Source: A Canadian woman's wit and
wisdom. Compiled by Cori Howard New York: Nine Publishers Inc, 2004
pg 108 |
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I'm
inspired every morning at half-past nine. Writing is a habit and
once you get it, something inside helps you to go on.
Madge MacBeth,(1878-1965) prolific multimedia author
Source: No Daughter of mine: The women and history of the Canadian
women's press club 1904-1971 by Kay Rex (Toronto, Cedar Cave
Publishing, 1995) |
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When I am
working on a book, I often have to get up in the middle of the night
to add something, or write down an idea.
Madge
MacBeth,(1878-1965) prolific multimedia author
Source: No
Daughter of mine: The women and history of the Canadian women's
press club 1904-1971 by Kay Rex (Toronto, Cedar Cave Publishing,
1995) |
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I get ideas for
books from life, mostly my own life, but sometimes it's something
that a kid says.
Frieda Wishinsky (1948-
) Canadian children's author .
Source: CM Magazine profile by Dave
Jenkinson
http://umanitoba.ca/cm/frofiles/wishnisky
(accessed March 2007) |
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Growing Up, I always wanted to write. When I was a child I used to
write things and read them to my dog who loved them and that
encouraged me.
Joan Weir, (1928 -
) author
Source: Joan Weir by David Jenkinson, CM
Magazine
http://umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/weir.html
(accessed January 2007) |
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My historical novels all grow from
the research I have done for my histories…That provides the
background – sometimes relationships – and often some of the
conflict. Then I bring the stories to life and involve the reader by
introducing and developing my characters.
Joan Weir, (1928
- ) author
Source: Joan Weir by David Jenkinson, CM
Magazine
http://umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/weir.html
(accessed January 2007) |
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One of the most fascinating things
about writing is that the characters really do become real people.
It’s almost as if you know them, and you find yourself talking to
them.
Joan Weir, (1928 -
) author
Source: Joan Weir by David Jenkinson, CM
Magazine
http://umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/weir.html
(accessed January 2007) |
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I have to know “why” I’m writing the book before I start. I don’t
know the ending. I think the ending has to grow out of what happens
as your characters suddenly take on a life of their own which is
greater than you thought when you started. It’s out of their growth
that the ending grows. And very often the ending isn’t what you
thought, even in a sort of vague way, that it was going to be at
all.
Joan Weir, (1928 -
) author
Source: Joan Weir by
David Jenkinson, CM Magazine
http://umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/weir.html (accessed January
2007) |
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Mysteries are like a crossword
puzzle, and you have to write them backwards. All the time you’re
writing, you’ve got to be setting the bona fide clues because you
have to play faire with the reader; however, you’ve got to cover
them in such a way that they aren’t necessarily seen as clues at the
time. At the same time, you’ve got to lay all the false leads, and
then you’ve got to know where you’re going yourself. You have to
think almost in terms of knowing the end before you write the
beginning!
Joan Weir, (1928 -
) author
Source: Joan Weir by David Jenkinson, CM
Magazine
http://umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/weir.html
(accessed January 2007) |
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I can’t sit down and say “I think I will write a book. What will I
write?’ In the back of my mind, I have to have something that’s
needing at me all the time, saying ‘Write me! Write me!’ Then I say
to myself. “I’ve got to write that book.’ Because I really want to
get those ideas out.
Joan Weir, (1928 -
) author
Source: Joan Weir by David Jenkinson, CM
Magazine
http://umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/weir.html
(accessed January 2007) |
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The only way I can write is for my
subconscious to take over so that, when I’m doing something else,
perhaps when I’m in the shower or getting dinner ready, suddenly
something clicks and that’s what I’ve got to do with so and so”. I
immediately get a piece of paper and write id down because , if I
don’t, I forget.
Joan Weir, (1928 -
) author
Source: Joan Weir by David Jenkinson, CM
Magazine
http://umanitoba.ca/cm/profiles/weir.html
(accessed January 2007)
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No writing in
Canada carries such influence as journalism. People who seldom or
never read a book, read the newspapers.
Maza de la Roche,(1897-1961)
author, the introduction to Northern lights, 1960.
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A writer's mind
seems to be stimulated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the
head.
Ethel Wilson, author.
Source: Canadian Literature , Fall
1959. |
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Get to the point as directly
as you can, never use a big work if a little one will do.
Emilie Carr,(1871-1945) Artist & author. Source: Growing
pints, 1946. |
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It was
absolutely necessary that I should be on the scene where my stroy
was laid.
Margaret Marshall Saunders
Source: The story of my life,
margaret Marshall Saunders, Ontario Library Review 1927 pg. 225. |
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Writing is like a bonsai. It takes a lot of effort,
patience and careful pruning. At the end of it all, one runs the
risk of hearing an unimaginative viewer/reader call it nothing but
a mere stunted creation. I write storylines prolifically in my
head, a minimal quantity of which is written down on paper, of
which a trickle is sent out, of which a reasonable ratio gets into
print.
Uma
Parameswaran, Canadian award winning author.
Source: Manitoba Author Publication List – online 9Accessed May
28, 2008
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Read a lot. Write something every day. On outline is
useful if you are working on a long piece. For poetry, get someone
else to read the draft aloud – your choice of words should be such
that they force someone other than yourself to read it the same way
you would.
Uma Parameswaran, Canadian award winning author.
Source: Manitoba Author Publication List – online 9Accessed May 28,
2008.
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There is a kind of glory in sudden
death: to go down at the peak of one's powers with both achievement and
potential untarnished, all flags flying. The light is snapped off before it
has had a chance to dim or fade, One giant step into the next world. But O
pity the survivors.
Betty Jane Wylie, author. Source: Beginnings,
a book for widows. 1977. |
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There are two kinds
of art, man art and woman art. They are two different kinds of people, so
the art comes out differently.
Joyce Wieland,
(1931-1998) artist, Source: Women in the arts in Canada, by Sandra
Gwyn . Status of Women studies. Royal Commission on the Status of Women.
1971. |
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In the scrolls
of the future it is already written that the centre of the Empire must
shift, and where, if not to Canada? Sara Jeanette
Duncan, (1862-1922) author. Source: The Imperialist, 1904 Pg 399.
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Behind every successful man
is a surprised woman.
Maryon
Pearson- wife or former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson
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Snow in
April is abominable', said Anne. 'Like a slap in the face when you expected
a kiss.'
Lucy Maude Montgomery -
Canadian author from her book : Anne of Ingleside, 1939 |
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Television without an audience
is like doing summer stock in an iron lung
Beatrice Lillie - 1894-1989 comedienne
Source: Beatrice Lillie: the funniest woman in the
world. New York: Wynwood Press , 1989 p 229. SEE ALSO 100
Canadian heroines; famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forester
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2004 pg 137. |
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It is good to live in these
first days when the foundations of things are being laid, to be
able, now and then, to place a stone or carry the mortar to set it
good and true.
Emily Murphy - 1868-1933. - feminist, social activist
and member of the "Famous Five".
Source: the Famous 5: their legacy by the
Heritage community Foundation
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/famous5 as
located December 2004. |
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Substantial
foods is like hugs, but fancies might come under the 'ead kisses.
Mazo de L
Roche, (1897-1961) Author
Source:
Explorers of the Dawn (1922) |
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...good food
means good materials, lovingly prepared by someone who cares for the
people who will eat it.
Mme Jehane Benoit, (1904-1987) famous chef and author.
Source The
Canadian Cookbook. |
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What need
has a man of brains when he goes into politics? Brainy men make the
trouble
Nellie McClung, (1873-1951) politician
Source: Sewing seeds in Danny (1911)
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Why is
it...that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they
should be so anxious to serve the public?
Sara Jeannette Duncan, author
Source: The Imperialist ( 1904) |
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Personally
I have never seen much point in lists of 10, but they have always
been popular. I believe the first to come out with one was GOD!
Barbara Amiel, author and journalist.
Source: The first original unexpurgated authentic
Canadian book of lists. (Toronto, Pagurian Press, 1978. ) |
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The way to get things out of a
government is to back them to the wall, and your hands to their
throats and you will get all they have.
Agnes MacPhail, (1890-1954) First woman elected to
the Canadian Parliament. Source: Speech to
Southern Progressive Association, Regina, SK, 1927.
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I have moved to music, wrapped
myself in song as with a silver cloak , how bright, how splendid!
Audrey Alexander Brown, (1904- ) Canadian
poet & author.
Source: The Singer grows old.
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So how does a
business survive in constantly changing environments?
When change
hits, a common response is denial or trying to adapt with a business
model that no longer works.
We can influence the outcome in changing environments more rapidly
by first recognizing that we actually need to survive and then
moving to survive with new ideas.
Roberta
Bondar. First Canadian woman in space, photographer,
environmentalist, author.
Source: Roberta Bondar Website
http://www.robertabondar.com/latest_writings.php
(Accessed March 2007)
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The people do not exist for the sake of art, to give
the painter fame or the picture a market. On the contrary, art
exists for the sake of the people, to refresh the weary, to console
the sad, to increase man's joy of living and his sympathies with all
the world.
Madge Young Clement,
singer and first president of The Brandon Art Club
Source Heroines .ca
(accessed March 2007)
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It
wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything
would it?
Lucy Maud Montgomery, (1874 -1942)
Internationally respected author of Anne of Green Gables.
Source: Anne of Green
Gables.
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Language is a part of your blood, it makes you who
you are. It cannot die.
Dora Wasserman (1919-2003) founder of The Yiddish Theatre,
Montreal. Source: Peritz, Ingrid. Guardian of Yiddish Culture
dies. Globe and Mail. December 17, 2003 A *
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