Leading the party is a privilege not a right.

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 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 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.

Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.

If you want more influence, love more people.

My first day of teaching, I got hit in the head with a bandstand & needed 4 stitches. Welcome to #NYCity teaching in the 90s.

...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

If you're in a relationship with someone who does not honor or respect you, I want you to know you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Sometimes you lose some friends and you get new ones.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.