Shirley Williams Quotes

• There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

  Shirley Williams

  Doe, Hazards, Doing Nothing

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• society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

  Shirley Williams

  Rooms, Making Changes, Willing

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• The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

  Shirley Williams

  Revolution, Illusion, Humans

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• We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

  Shirley Williams

  Education, Running, Compare

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• No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

  Shirley Williams

  Children, Parenting, Stories

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• 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

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• If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

  Shirley Williams

  Party, Belief, Democratic

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• It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

  Shirley Williams

  Views, Would Be, Excellent

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• I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

  Shirley Williams

  Party, Believe, Not Interested

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• 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

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• We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

  Shirley Williams

  Running, Teacher, Children

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• The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

  Shirley Williams

  Funny, Humor, British

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• The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

  Shirley Williams

  Party, Men, Danger

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