In Times Like These
A source page for quotes linked to Nellie L. McClung.
“Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.”
“Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.”
“Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.”
“It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.”
“it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.”
“Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.”
“A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.”
“Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.”
“Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.”
“Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.”
“People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.”
“Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?”
“I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.”
“Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?”
“The good is the greatest rival of the best.”