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I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.


Harriet Harman

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HARRIET MIERS I believe employers should be able to pick the best qualified for any position to be filled consider...
HARRIET MIERS I don't know off hand. Let me ask Thomas and Scalia what they think.
HARRIET MIERS Obviously, we evaluated that this was the right time to settle and to resolve this matter and that i...
HARRIET MIERS I truly believe if the governor told her she should be an Astronaut, she would do her best to become...
HARRIET MIERS The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to...
HARRIET LERNER Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation.
HARRIET TUBMAN You'll be free or die!
HARRIET TUBMAN . . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.'
HARRIET MONROE The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have; else they will never have better.
HARRIET MONROE There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the posses...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties
HARRIET MARTINEAU Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hear...
HARRIET MARTINEAU There is no forethought or editing when I paint. These covered canvases are all over my studio. When...
HARRIET WISEMAN Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
HARRIET NELSON I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
HARRIET TUBMAN Never wound a snake; kill it.
HARRIET TUBMAN It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scienti...
HARRIET MARTINEAU If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov...
HARRIET MARTINEAU I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book -- though it would be foolish of me not to ...
HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to c...
HARRIET ZIEFERT Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and su...
HARRIET BROWN You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.
HARRIET EVANS I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book — though it would be foolish of me not to...
HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book though it would be foolish of me not to con...
HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to ...
HARRIET ZIEFERT I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory ov...
HARRIET TUBMAN Quakers almost as good as colored.... They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time...
HARRIET TUBMAN Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.
HARRIET MONROE