Agnes Macphail Quotes

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  I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

  Agnes Macphail

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• Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.

  Agnes Macphail

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  Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.

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• Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.

  Agnes Macphail

• When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I’d come to walk around. I didn’t want them doing me favours.

  Agnes Macphail

• Whatever is dirty, it is women’s job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

  Agnes Macphail

• Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the ‘dirt’ than in spite of it.

  Agnes Macphail

• It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

  Agnes Macphail

• If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

  Agnes Macphail

• If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

  Agnes Macphail

• I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

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• I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

  Agnes Macphail

• I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

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Agnes Macphail (13)

Birth:	24th March, 1890
Death:	13th February, 1954
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Politician

About

Agnes Campbell Macphail was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, and one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Active throughout her life in progressive Canadian politics, Macphail worked for two separate parties and promoted her ideas through column-writing, activist organizing, and legislation. Agnes Macphail was born to Dougald McPhail and Henrietta Campbell in Proton Township, Grey County, Ontario on March 24, 1890. Although her surname was spelled "McPhail" at birth, she discovered during a trip to Scotland that her family's surname had been "Macphail" and changed her name to reflect this. She was raised as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a church within the Latter Day Saint movement. Following her schooling at Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute she attended the teachers college in Stratford, and afterwards taught in schools in southwest Ontario. While working in Sharon, Macphail became active politically, joining the United Farmers of Ontario and its women's organization, the United Farm Women of Ontario. She also became a columnist for the Farmers' Sun around this time.

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