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I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.


Louise Mensch

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LOUISE ARBOUR China's rapid economic g rowth has resulted in tremendous progress in reducing poverty and improving...
LOUISE ARBOUR There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations fo...
LOUISE ARBOUR If you can't return a favor, pass it on
LOUISE BROWN I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on...
LOUISE NEVELSON Some people need a slap, in the face, with a shovel!
LOUISE TRENT I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
LOUISE BROWN My father could out-weather anybody. Like people anywhere, there were times when it was the only top...
LOUISE ERDRICH I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.
LOUISE POST …believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn’t.
LOUISE PENNY Living things don't all require
light in the same degree. Some of us
make our own light: a...
LOUISE GLüCK Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving gr...
LOUISE ERDRICH Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at th...
LOUISE ERDRICH And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't...
LOUISE RENNISON Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront.
LOUISE ERDRICH Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep m...
LOUISE FITZHUGH It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockef...
LOUISE NEVELSON What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shoul...
LOUISE NEVELSON New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast sc...
LOUISE NURDING A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
LOUISE ERDRICH The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked mor...
LOUISE ERDRICH Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced hers...
LOUISE PENNY Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved!
Receive the laurel, given, though late, o...
LOUISE BOGAN I think the fact they they're just practically denuding the northeast preys on a lot of minds and we...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Exxon-Mobil alone, one oil company, brought in more than $7.6 billion dollars in profits over the la...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER The criminal indictment of Tom DeLay is the first chink in the armor of corruption that has so cloud...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER This bill would create the first federal law that would recognize a fertilized egg as a victim of a ...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER We need bipartisan support. We believe we can get it and we will get it.
LOUISE SLAUGHTER The best thing to spend on your children is your time.
LOUISE HART From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. We...
LOUISE NEVELSON True strength is delicate
LOUISE NEVELSON The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslav...
LOUISE NEVELSON It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
LOUISE NEVELSON There's no one that can comprehend what it means to have a place like this until you need it. This t...
LOUISE CUMMINGS