“Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.” Quote by Louise Mensch
“The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.” KnowsBehindsInternetScreens Author:Louise Mensch
“Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.” IfsCertainWishAnswersAttentionFocusHairAmountFeministAppearanceDistractionEyebrowsSisterhood Author:Louise Mensch
“I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHelpingHappensJobsLeftPovertyRightsDespairWorkersFewerProvidingCompetitors Author:Louise Mensch
“Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.” PeoplePlayFlickr Author:Louise Mensch
“That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.” ThinkingSaidI CanEnoughJudgingBabyAbortionPrintKillersMurderer Author:Louise Mensch
“We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.” IfsTwoImportantSocialHoursCommonWorryMediaMajorsPoliceTrainSocial MediaCommon SenseStationsBusClosingRiotTrain Stations Author:Louise Mensch
“Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsBodyWould BeChoicesCoursesMoralDependsDon't BelieveStanceWomen's Bodies Author:Louise Mensch
“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.” LibertyHistoricalObservance Author:Felix Frankfurter
“Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.” PeopleWorldWantedColdTricks Author:Mads Mikkelsen