There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

- Shirley Williams

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

- Shirley Williams

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

- Shirley Williams

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

- Shirley Williams

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 ordina…

- Shirley Williams

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

- Shirley Williams

I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

- Shirley Williams

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

- Shirley Williams

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

- Shirley Williams