Top Quotes & Sayings by Louise McKinney

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian politician Louise McKinney.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Louise McKinney

Louise McKinney was a Canadian politician, temperance advocate, and women's rights activist. She was the first woman sworn into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman elected to a legislature in the British Empire. She served in the Alberta legislature from 1917 to 1921 as a member of the Non-Partisan League. Later she was one of the Famous Five who campaigned successfully for the right of Canadian women to be appointed to the Senate. A former schoolteacher and temperance organizer, she came to Alberta in 1903 as a homesteader.

What, after all, is the purpose of a woman’s life? 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.
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