Top 33 Cherie Blair Quotes

As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.

I’ve learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don’t always get it right.

I am really lucky with my skin. It comes from my mum. Fashion tip from Cherie: drink lots of water.

The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.

Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it’s not exactly a happy relationship.

Like every mother, it’s my children; that’s the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen’s Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen’s Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the legal field, that’s different; that is my – they are my qualifications, but you know, the politicians are the ones who stand up there and are answerable to the people.

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I’m very passionate about injustice against women and there’s too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.

Do I have any advice for someone new to No. 10? Never open the door in your nightie. And that everybody has to adjust to it in a way that’s right for their family.

I think it is what you do with your wealth that is important. I don’t believe in accumulating money for money’s sake. It’s one of the reasons I want to do more about helping women.

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.

Understanding how your business affects human rights and using that knowledge to shape appropriate policies and practices is crucial to achieving what should be the goal of all corporations – sustainable growth.

I’m an incurable optimist, and I’m a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.

It’s not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there’s an idea that women don’t matter in the world, then all women are diminished.

Our experience shows – and survey after survey reveals – institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.

Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.

I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it’s a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn’t take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn’t beating the system but reinforcing it.

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I’m a feminist. That’s how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven’t grown out of it and probably never will.

You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.

If we’re going to truly solve the problems of the world, we’ve got to share our information whenever we can and strategically include one another in or efforts.

Here we are, worrying about whether we’re thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat – does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?

I suppose the first big shift in my life was when, at the age of 8, my father left my mother, leaving her alone with two daughters to bring up. That taught me the importance of women being financially independent. You never know what might happen.

I don’t know anybody who thinks they have it all… I count myself extremely lucky to have a fantastic family and the career I always wanted.

I don’t want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn’t mean there weren’t anxieties in my childhood about money.

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn’t achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that’s not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

I think I’m one of life’s copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.

You can’t please people who don’t really know you and, you know, I do think that one of the things I do want to do is please the people who matter to me and please the people that do know me.