Charlotte Whitton
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"Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton", Order of Canada/OC, CBE was a Canada/Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first female mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964.

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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.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

When one must, one can.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

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

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

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

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.