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Nancy Astor Biography

Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat.

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Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

Drinking, Exhibitions, Give, Giving, Person

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

Age, Old, Thought, Would Be, Years

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

Bedside, Birthday, Briefly, Dying, Family

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

Club, Doors, Europe, Men, Open, Parliament

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

Backward, Forward, Hopeless, Progress, Trying

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.

Kind, Learn, Politics, Suffering

No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.

Alone, Believe, Government, Reasons, Sex

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

Bench, Benches, Front, Grass, Growing

Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.

Attitude, Lies, Lying, Walks, Way

If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.

Coffee, Poison, Wife

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

Affecting, Politics, Problem, Question, Welfare, Women

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

Administrator, Cabinet, Cabinets, Ministers, Perfectly, Want

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything. . . or nothing.

Change, Dangers, Inspirational, Memorable, Nothing

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

Common, Inspirational, Man, Men, Success, Uncommon

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

Like, Money, People, Wealth

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Beer, Drink, Drinking, Husband, Sir

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Educate, Education, Real, Selflessness, Teacher

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

Figures, Lonely, May, Pioneers

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Darned, Make, Safe, Strong Women, World

I married beneath me. All women do.

Beneath, Divorce, Marriage, Married, Women

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