Emily Murphy

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The purpose of a woman's life is just the same as the purpose of a man's life: that she may make the best possible contribution to the generation in which she is living.”

“Whenever I don't know whether to laugh or cry, I always laugh.”

“The world loves a peaceful man, but it gives its prizes to the pusher.”

“No woman can become a postmaster, but any woman can marry the postmaster.”

“I think women can save civilization.”