I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

Leading the party is a privilege not a right.

One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.

When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and we all speak the same comedy language.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

Prosperity isn't defined by money alone; it encompasses time, love, success, joy, comfort, beauty, and wisdom.

Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.