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"CBC Manitoba broke the story that a former New Democratic Party cabinet minister had inappropriately touched women for years — and that it was an open secret within the party. The story brought #MeToo to Manitoba politics. Stan Struthers had become known behind his back as “Minister Tickles”. In the wake of the story former NDP premier Greg Selinger resigned his seat."

"In the churchyard she was set down while her male relations dug into the ground. A smell rose, of loam and of rain. Yetemegnu was brought to the front. Now she could see the priest who clambered into the shallow grave; see his censer swinging, one corner, another, another, overlaying earth with pious perfume. Hear the final prayers. Watch the bending backs lower their freight into the ground, head to the east, feet to the west, feel, like a blow to her own body, the first handful of soil land upon her mother."

"What has stayed constant is a certain chippiness. Canadians feel both superior to and dependent on America, thus resenting it; they often get mistaken for Americans, and are afraid of being culturally subsumed. They feel the rest of the world ignores them, which is a pretty accurate perception. And they're always trying to define who they are (not American, not British, not boring) and not quite succeeding, being presented with the daunting challenge of a country that covers five-and-a-half time zones, speaks two languages and contains a province that periodically wishes to secede (and if it did so would set the four Atlantic provinces adrift)."

"In the middle of war, Edemariam remembers soldiers so spooked that they fire rounds of machine-gun bullets into the heart of a tornado. Her grandmother shoves her and her cousin into the wardrobe. They sat crouched "among soft white dresses that smelled of incense and woodsmoke and limes"; her grandmother stood outside, sheltering them from all that passed. It is one startling, unforgettable story among an abundance of riches."

"Nine years ago I moved to Mexico City for a while to work at a public relations firm, helping them with their English-speaking clients."

"On-air chemistry is like real-life sexual chemistry. It’s mysterious, and you can’t take credit for it, you just have it"

"Businesses are benign entities that do a lot of good, including employing a lot of us. It is people making things, working hard"

"Being able to process a lot of information at once feels good to me. It feels fun."

"Innovation is an individual pursuit and that doing it brings so much happiness."

"When she was on BNN, it was almost exclusively a business crowd, but now it’s a much broader audience"

"Powerful CEOs and leaders seek out things that are beyond their comfort zone so they're great at office but they go on, you know, volunteer trips to Haiti, in one real example, because they want to experience things that they're not great at, they don't necessarily get and understand off the bat because they know that's where they thrive"

"Journalism is great for shy people because it gives you this arsenal of tools basically how to ask questions"

"The general atmosphere was you work hard, you get things done, you think and talk about interesting things or you don’t say anything"

"The long procession of priests in picturesque robes, and the group of feudal lords in their large ceremonial court costumes of many colors, made a memorable stage picture, and one, indeed, that the most extravagant of motion picture scenes might well emulate."

"A more disciplined stage than that of the Imperial can hardly be duplicated in any of the world's theater centers. The present repertory company has played together since the founding of the theater, and many of the younger actors have been associated with it since childhood."

"In the No the world of the real is left behind and the audience enters into a land of imagination; the face of the actor would clash with the non-realistic material of the play and the treatment."

"The western observer no doubt upon first impression may regard it as a hardchip that the girls of a family should do no more than gaze upon the beautiful dolls and be satisfied, and that these bright creatures of silk, embroidery and brocade from the hands of the skilled craftsmen are not to be touched, only to be admired at a distance. In brief, they are education, and so become removed from the sphere of ordinary playthings."

"Throughout the realm, the Hina Matsuri will be observed in the homes of rich and poor alike when a series of shelves, one rising above the other, and covered with a red cloth will be placed in the best room of the dwelling. Here the treasured dolls and their furniture will be displayed for one day only."

"Kabuki is most distinguished when it deals with the weird and grotesque, and the American visitor may not be at all surprised if among the insubstantial stage creations of the Japanese he becomes acquainted with the spirit of a cherry tree, or the transformation of a maid into a fox or a lion."

"The Japanese theatre art differs so widely from anything to be seen in Western countries that it might as well belong to the people of Mars or Saturn, so far removed is it from the ordinary affairs of life as known and experienced in the West. But just because the Eastern hemisphere has founded its theatres on opposite principles from those of Europe, there is all the more reason why this uncharted field of human endeavour should become familiar to our unaccustomed ears and eyes."

"Turning those revelations into art was a whole other thing…I did it, though — and that helped me realize my power, beyond the pain. Being able to illustrate those experiences for readers was a triumph, because it took everything to resist all the urges I have as a human being to present myself as good, or healed, or undamaged. I had to work against myself to make the memoir, and I ended up more empowered than I ever thought I could be."

"I think people have to hit rock bottom to really know their faculties because they have to use those faculties to get out of that rock bottom. I really had to feel profoundly lonely to get myself out of the feeling of being profoundly lonely. But it was always there, that feeling of loneliness and existing with the absence of something that had been stripped from me."

"Women, not all, but many, like seeing they aren’t alone. My story is very common. I was abused. Mistreated. Hurt by men. I came up. Women resonate with that story because it’s theirs sometimes."

"I wanted to be at the apex of my story…For a long time, it felt as though things were happening to me. I felt as though I had no agency."

"Why not celebrate parents and not separate the holidays from dads and moms?"

"Humanity has its weaknesses, and woman is perhaps the weakness of man!"

"It's not men's places that women claim, but their own place in a modern society."

"If the young terrorists had a mother with a heart full of love, they would not think of making the revolution, but to build in this country that does not lack corners to exploit". Editor's note: Chronicle published in following the assassination of Quebec Minister Pierre Laporte."

"Mom gives life in every way."

"Women's participation is more than words to take action."

"In this century of violent violence in all parts of the world, it is almost ridiculous to ask people to be thankful, but women must continue to teach their children to be thankful... saying to appreciate the smallest thing that comes from others for free."

"The simplicity of the generous gesture can give a joy of living to those who need it so much."

"You know that there is a time to do one thing and another time to enjoy it."

"Every intelligent woman knows how to be free."

"Smile to life this morning and be assured, ma'am, that this life will make you smile. The present belongs to the optimists."

"The earth does not stop turning, because you are unhappy, as well swallowing your tears and smiling, even if the pain is still burning."

"In education, there are almost no more immutable rules."

"If moms know how to keep open the line that connects them to the friendship of their children, they will learn that today's young people are great!"

"What joys are not felt by people who continually give their good mood..."

"Man has never proved his strength by the goods he possesses, but rather by the generous help he can bring to society."

"The woman, who does not imitate her mother and her grandmother as a mother and a good wife, can only rely on her own scale of values ​​to find a life ideal that is important to her happiness."

"It is certain that in order to dialogue, one must, at the beginning, have an open mind."

"This society so harsh, so inhuman, it is composed of you and me... What are we doing to help the other one?"

"Funny time when most of the poor and disinherited parts of the world could live what the other party leaves on his plate ... And we continue to sing the joy, the peace, the love ... do we really believe?"

"We need succession in career women's clubs. The younger generation of women helps us to be more aware of how our world is changing."

"Graduate studies are not only, today, the key golden men."

"Forget what hurt you, it's a recipe for youth, health and happiness ..."

"If children find life hard, they find that the family still has its good side."

"We know that relationships can change after an election. We saw it here in Canada with the Stephen Harper administration. Things were a bit chillier than they are now with Prime Minister Trudeau and Barack Obama."

"I think we have to acknowledge that our windows are being washed at this very moment while we're trying to do our report, but live TV, this just demonstrates this is live TV and that this happens, sometimes this happens."