Cherie Blair

Lawyer

1954-09-23

Cherie Blair is an English barrister, legal advocate, and writer. She is the founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and has worked internationally on access to justice and women’s economic rights.

Quotes by Cherie Blair

Sometimes it's easier to attack the spouse than it is to attack the politician.
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Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.
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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.
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Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
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Sometimes I have to pinch myself to think: have I really come this far? Because it is quite different, where I find myself today, from where I started off, in the streets of Waterloo, in the suburbs of Liverpool - that's for sure.
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For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.
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