Agnes Macphail Quotes
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.
Crowley, Terry. Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality. James Lorimer & Company, 1990, p. 74.
Given the time, this was an amazing demand. Fuller preceded all the more famous American feminists and was an inspiration to them.
This is one of the most positive statements about women and women’s rights to emanate from a leader of a Muslim Middle Eastern nation.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
This remarkable statement was written in about 1840 and there was probably then few people of either gender who would think such a thing possible.
Agnes Campbell Macphail was a Canadian politician from Ontario who was the country's first female Member of Parliament. First elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1921, she served as an MP until 1940. Moving to provincial politics, 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. Active throughout her life in progressive Canadian politics, Macphail worked for two separate parties. She also promoted her ideas through column-writing, activist organizing, and legislation.