Emily Murphy Quotes

• We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.

  Emily Murphy

  Leadership, Strong Women, Fighting

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• Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.

  Emily Murphy

  Fighting, Knows

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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 to make a great country.

  Emily Murphy

  Country, Believe, Race

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

  Emily Murphy

  Chance, Behinds, Happens

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• No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.

  Emily Murphy

  Suffering

  Donna James, Emily Ferguson Murphy (2001). “Emily Murphy”, Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside

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• I think women can save civilization.

  Emily Murphy

  Thinking, Civilization, Woman Leader

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

  Emily Murphy

  Men, Ears, World

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

  Emily Murphy

  Men, World Love, Giving

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• On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.

  Emily Murphy

  Air, Prairie, Colour

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• Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

  Emily Murphy

  Games, Favors, Chance

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