I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

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.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?