Harriet Harman Quotes
Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
Harman, Harriet. "Prime Minister's Questions." Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Commons, 2008.
Although she was living proof of a woman’s ability to accomplish what most men could not, she was always publicly differential to men and their sexism. Although she opposed women voting in Parliamentary elections, she did believe that women should vote in local elections where the understood the issues much better.
Her husband had been assassinated. It is not uncommon that after a political assassination, the widow of the slain male politician, carries on the political legacy. But otherwise there are few female politicians in the Third World in general and the Middle East in particular. Arab and other cultures so severely restrict a woman’s mobility within the society that death of a husband or father seems to be the only vehicle whereby a woman enters politics.
This particular rally targeted men rather than women. The nation was in a severe recession, and the audience of mostly men cried, “No!
He served a jail sentence in Britain for inciting race hatred.
Harriet Ruth Harman QC MP is a British politician and solicitor who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Camberwell and Peckham, formerly Peckham, since 1982. A member of the Labour Party, she has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions.
