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Famous Bernadette Devlin Quotes
“The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.”
“I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.”
“I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.”
“Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.”
“There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.”
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else”
“It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.”
“We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.”
“My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.”