“One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you–suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I’ll have a go, too.”

“If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.”

“Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species — it is the tigress and lioness in you — which tends to defend when attacked.”

“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.”

“I shan’t be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.”