Jess Phillips Quotes

Jess Phillips

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 9, 1981

Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me fat, calling me stupid. And it's all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.

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The fact that I stick up for women doesn't mean that I think all men are rapists. But that's lost somewhere in translation. Obviously I don't think that. I married one! I gave birth to two of them.

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There's something wrong with the Labour party. There's something wrong with the fact that women never rise to the top.

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I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don't have a candle to hold to the experiences of those victims.

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There's not a single diet I haven't been on.

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To be honest, I've always been forthright.

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The trouble for lots of politicians is they worry so much about everybody liking every single thing that they do.

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I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.

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All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents are really political.

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I like to go camping with my kids. I've got an amazing group of friends. Just like any 30-year-old woman I like to go out dancing, eating food, drinking with my mates, like any normal person.

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My favourite film is probably 'Star Wars'. I do love 'Starship Troopers', it is a great film but it's not a film I watch over and over again. Whereas 'Star Wars' I've watched over and over again all my life, and it's a film I can tolerate watching with my children.

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Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

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I was politically complacent during the Blair years. Things were good and people thought things would be good forever.

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As a woman, I don't trust Boris Johnson with my rights and that's largely because of the things that he has said and done in his political life.

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I've made a career out of being able to talk about difficult things, and that comes from growing up in an environment where nothing was embarrassing.

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To liberate women and end violence is to break down the culture of power imbalance.

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When you're left on the floor of a hospital gasping for breath, or you can't get your kid a school place, the simplest things are your idea of radical.

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I am apoplectic that people no longer expect progress because for so long they have worn the clothes of decline.

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We've all got to discover the courage to ask the difficult questions about the future of our party and the future of the working-class communities who need a Labour government.

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Join Labour to help change Labour. Help those of us willing to ask the difficult questions by adding your voice to the debate that's coming.

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