War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.

Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.