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Charlotte Whitton Politician

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: Canada
  • Born: Mar 8, 1896
  • Died: Jan 25, 1975

Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton, OC, CBE was a 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.

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

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

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.