Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Charlotte Whitton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian politician Charlotte Whitton.
Last updated on November 30, 2024.
Charlotte Whitton

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.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
When one must, one can.
Man cannot live by incompetence alone. — © Charlotte Whitton
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Action makes more fortune than caution.
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.
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.
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.
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.
There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.
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