Words matter. These are the best Louise Mensch Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I like my men to be manly, as you’ll see from my books.
Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don’t believe it to be a person but part of a woman’s body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn’t believe it to be a person.
‘Kane and Abel’ is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read ‘First Among Equals.’
I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it’s not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.
Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I’d say the answer to that is no. But equally, it’s a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman’s appearance, and I don’t wish that to be the focus or a distraction.
What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don’t have to say every Tory is in it for themselves – it’s pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.
That said, I can’t emphasise enough – and I hope you print this – that I absolutely don’t judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept your limitations, jump before you’re pushed, leap before you look.
Of course women can have it all – if they want it all. I won’t hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won’t get anywhere fast.
The nature of the internet is that you don’t know who is behind the screen.
I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can’t break the laws you’re writing.
Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that’s how it’ll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I’d named it after myself.
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn’t wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.
Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
