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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central…

— Ed Miliband

I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In…

— Johann Lamont

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take…

— Ellen Wilkinson

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes…

— Mary Augusta Ward

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get…

— Noreena Hertz

We need to be vocal in our support of female colleagues who are pressing for a dramatic shift in the culture of Parliament.

— Nick Boles

We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but…

— Marion Kirkland Reid

In my book 'Women of Westminster,' a history of 100 years of women MPs, I was struck by how abuse of women in public…

— Rachel Reeves

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as…

— Helen Garner

A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the…

— Andrea Leadsom

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically,…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

— Eleanor Rathbone