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.

  Harriet Harman

• 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.

  Harriet Harman

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

  Harriet Harman

• 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.

  Harriet Harman

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

  Harriet Harman

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

  Harriet Harman

• I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

  Harriet Harman

• I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That’s one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

  Harriet Harman

• I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.

  Harriet Harman

• I don’t agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it’s a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

  Harriet Harman

• Actually, I don’t ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, ‘What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?’ It just won’t happen again.

  Harriet Harman

Harriet Harman (11)

Birth:	30th July, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

Harriet Harman was born in London, UK. She is a British lawyer and politician who has been a Member of Parliament since 1982, first for Peckham, and then for its successor constituency of Camberwell and Peckham since 1997. She served as Secretary of State for Social Security in Tony Blair administration. She served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Acting Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition. She is currently the longest continuously-serving female MP in the House of Commons. She studied BA in Politics from Goodricke College, University of York. She qualified as a solicitor and worked for Brent Law Centre from 1978 to 1982. She is married to former trade union leader Jack Dromey, who became Treasurer of the Labour Party in 2004 and MP for Birmingham Erdington in 2010.

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