16 Quotes by Joan Kirner

It's okay, when we as women are in a serving role. But it's not okay, it appears, still, when we have full access to power.

Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.

I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.