Bernadette Devlin

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

— Bernadette Devlin

Free love is too expensive.

— Bernadette Devlin

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

— Bernadette Devlin

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

— Bernadette Devlin

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

— Bernadette Devlin

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

— Bernadette Devlin

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

— Bernadette Devlin

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

— Bernadette Devlin

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

— Bernadette Devlin

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

— Bernadette Devlin

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at…

— Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of…

— Bernadette Devlin

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their…

— Bernadette Devlin

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of…

— Bernadette Devlin

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians…

— Bernadette Devlin

Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It…

— Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could…

— Bernadette Devlin

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule…

— Bernadette Devlin

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to…

— Bernadette Devlin

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

— Bernadette Devlin

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

— Bernadette Devlin