Cherie Blair
Cherie Blair
Theresa Cara Blair CBE QC, known as Cherie Blair or professionally as Cherie Booth, is a British barrister and lecturer. She is married to the former prime minister, Tony Blair...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth23 September 1954
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They want a Beatles song, people want us to sing, they want me to sing?
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People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.
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Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.
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Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.
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As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.
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I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.
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Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.
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You can't please people who don't really know you and, you know, I do think that one of the things I do want to do is please the people who matter to me and please the people that do know me.
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Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.
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It's not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there's an idea that women don't matter in the world, then all women are diminished.
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I had no idea he had been in jail in more than one country, including in this country.
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You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.
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Oh, he is my husband, Mr Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister,
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Someone with 4As at A-level from Eton may look good on paper and come across as very smooth, but push a bit more, and often you get the impression they have learned to pass exams rather than think for themselves.