The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
About Shirley Williams
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 to 1979.
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We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there’s a chance of winning back the party.
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If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that’s where I belong.
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