Shirley Williams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.
-- Shirley Williams

#Running #Compare #Supermarkets
society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.
-- Shirley Williams

#Rooms #Making Changes #Willing
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of ***** ever read a story to a sleepy child.
-- Shirley Williams

#Children #Parenting #Stories
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
-- Shirley Williams

#Women #Catholic #Church
We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.
-- Shirley Williams

#Party #Character #Winning
There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
-- Shirley Williams

#Doing Nothing #Doe #Hazards
We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.
-- Shirley Williams

#Running #Teacher #Children
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.
-- Shirley Williams

#Party #Belief #Democratic
The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.
-- Shirley Williams

#British
The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.
-- Shirley Williams

#Revolution #Revolutionary #Illusion

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