” Because I sometimes shopped in Waitrose, I thought I was actually quite posh. I’ve realised that I’m basically a scullery maid. Even the middle-class people who I meet in parliament, people who live in London – which I think is remarkable because how can anybody afford to live there – seem much, much more middle class than me. “
” One of the things I want to achieve in the potentially short time I’m in Westminster is to stop people thinking we’re all the same. Because while they believe that, the establishment stays in the same people’s hands. “
” Ah, well, I do think the generation that came after me has changed. I think there is a growing sense that young women should like themselves a bit more. “
” I loathe and detest people who pretend they don’t care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude. “
” I think power will do anything to survive and one of its main techniques is the rule of exceptions. So it makes an exception out of people and we worship them, whether that’s Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. These people become beatified beyond recognition. “
” Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don’t always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight. “
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