Charlotte Whitton

Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton OC CBE (March 8, 1896 – January 25, 1975) 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.

Quotes

• Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
  • In Canada Month (June, 1963), as reported in James B. Simpson (ed.) Contemporary Quotations (1964), p. 286. Also quoted, without the last sentence, in the Arlington Heights Herald (August 26, 1965), p. 49