Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Charlotte Whitton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian politician Charlotte Whitton.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first woman mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964. Whitton was a Canadian social policy pioneer, leader and commentator, as well as a journalist and writer.

Canadian - Politician | March 8, 1896 - January 25, 1975

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Charlotte Whitton

When one must, one can.

Charlotte Whitton

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Charlotte Whitton

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

Charlotte Whitton

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

Charlotte Whitton

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Charlotte Whitton

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Charlotte Whitton

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Charlotte Whitton

Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

Charlotte Whitton

Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

Charlotte Whitton

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

Charlotte Whitton