For the record: on being a woman involved in parliamentary politics.

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"Columnists ask me about anything and everything except my job: my home, my cooking, my hobbies, my friends, my tastes, my likes and dislikes. All of them became public, property to a degree suffered by none of my colleagues, including the new Prime Minister."

Judy LaMarsh, MP and the second woman to serve in the federal cabinet

Source: Judy LaMarsh Memoirs quoted in "Wielding Political Clout: A Panel Discussion," The Electronic Journal of Communication

"If a finale Member of Parliament says anything foolish it is forgotten the next day, but if a woman does it, it is repeated endlessly, right across the country."

Ellen, Fairclough, MP and the first woman to serve in the federal cabinet

Source: Electing a Diverse Canada: The Representation of immigrants, Minorities, and Women by Caroline Andrew, John Biles, Myer Siemiatycki and Erin Tolley

"If politics mean ... the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other people's children ... then it most assuredly is a woman's job as much as it is a man's job."

Irene Parlby, Alberta MLA, second woman to serve as a cabinet minister in the British Empire

Source: Famous5.ca

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