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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 - 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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Non Canadians |
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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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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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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ON
getting older |
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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 :
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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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