• My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

    Betty Boothroyd: My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
    Quoted in Glenys Kinnock and Fiona Millar (eds) By Faith and Daring (1993).