About This Quote

About Agnes Macphail

Agnes Macphail was Canadian politician and activist. Agnes Campbell Macphail was a Canadian politician and the first woman elected to Canada's House of Commons. She served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1921 to 1940; from 1943 to 1945 and again from 1948 to 1951, she served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the Toronto riding of York East. Read more on Wikipedia →

More quotes by Agnes Macphail

“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.”
— Agnes Macphail
Women Myself Want

“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
Home Women Myself

“Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.”
— Agnes Macphail
friends friendship

“Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.”
— Agnes Macphail
friends friendship
View all quotes by Agnes Macphail →

Related Quotes

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”
— Gian Kumar
self self-help self-improvement spirituality

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
self truth

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
— Helen Keller
self truth