Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill quotes
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“Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.”
-- Edith Summerskill, Baroness SummerskillSource : Speech to Married Women's Association, House of Commons, 14 July 1960, in The Times 15 July 1960
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“Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.”
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“I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.”
-- Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
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“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
Source : New Yorker, 14 May 1960
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“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.”
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Source : "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.
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“In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.”
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“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.”
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“Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.”
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