98 Quotes by Jess Phillips

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

When my children were little, I would chat with my husband or my mum friends about how we were superior parents to other people, or that so-and-so was lying about how their children slept through the night.

I am Left-wing. I am a socialist. I believe in sharing wealth. There's no two ways about it.

My childhood dream was to be prime minister.

If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.

My mum taught me the power of protest.

I've carried witty banners against laws that would curtail my freedoms.

Any MP who deals with immigration a huge amount, which I do, is going to worry about giving powers to the executive to change immigration law without scrutiny.

It might be easy to brush away the febrile atmosphere online as a nasty byproduct of free expression: it's less easy when it happens to you.