Quotes By Frances O..Grady

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.