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. Cherie Blair Read Quote
For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well. Cherie Blair Read Quote
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? Cherie Blair Read Quote
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. Cherie Blair Read Quote
I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality. Cherie Blair Read Quote
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. Cherie Blair Read Quote
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. Cherie Blair Read Quote
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. Cherie Blair Read Quote
Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was – well, we didn’t have a lot of money. I didn’t live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone. Cherie Blair Read Quote
I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn’t. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women’s progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility. Cherie Blair Read Quote
