Harriet Harman Quotes

Well, if you look at the programme that we’re offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We’re still heavily outnumbered – we’re still four to one in parliament – but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.

Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I’m deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I’m out there talking about their big choice for the future.

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

It’s hard to bring up your children on benefit. It’s easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that’s the direction in which we are going.

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.