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 "The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."
- Frances Willard (1839-1898) Temperance activist and suffragist "...a tremendous amount of dedicated work and commitment faces the Indian woman of today. The task of rekindling the Indian culture, rebuilding the Indian nation, is placed in her arms..."
Mary Ann Lavallee, Saulteaux-Cree and social justice activist; quoted in 1975. "The war...did a lot to finish off the idea that a woman's place and her only place was in the home...The war and working in plants so changed me. I became an entirely different person."
Canadian woman, Post WW2. "From the very beginning of my political career, my goal had been to change the status of women, racial minorities and other disadvantaged groups in society..."
Rosemary Brown, the first Black woman in Canada to be elected to a provincial legislature; quoted from Being Brown: A Very Public Life, 1989.
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