Charlotte Whitton Quotes

• Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

  Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2

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• Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Inspirational, Hope, Nature

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• For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Work, Smart, Men

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• There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

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  Men, Two, Wife

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• Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

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  Men, Incompetence, Ability

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• When one must, one can.

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  Yiddish

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• Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Men, Order, Half

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• Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

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  Accompany You, Accompany Us, Deeds

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• Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Call Me

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• It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Running, Dying, Three

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