I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!

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.

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 men-only leadership.

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.

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

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

Leading the party is a privilege not a right.

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strengthen the soul.

Personality rise as comparison dies.

So many men so many opinions.

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people down enough.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

No days off. I'm a workaholic.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.