When you're left on the floor of a hospital gasping for breath, or you can't get your kid a school place, the simplest things are your idea of radical.
— Jess Phillips
As a woman, I don't trust Boris Johnson with my rights and that's largely because of the things that he has said and done in his political life.
I was politically complacent during the Blair years. Things were good and people thought things would be good forever.
I like to go camping with my kids. I've got an amazing group of friends. Just like any 30-year-old woman I like to go out dancing, eating food, drinking with my mates, like any normal person.
The trouble for lots of politicians is they worry so much about everybody liking every single thing that they do.
I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don't have a candle to hold to the experiences of those victims.
Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me fat, calling me stupid. And it's all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.
I will stand up for all of those who feel they can't stand up for themselves.
I refuse to believe this rhetoric that the Labour party can't get under one big umbrella with a common enemy - sometimes a common enemy is an absolutely delightful unifier.
I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.
I hate when people send me LinkedIn requests.
Ah, well, I do think the generation that came after me has changed. I think there is a growing sense that young women should like themselves a bit more.
Growing up with my father was like growing up with Jeremy Corbyn. He still hasn't rejoined the party; it's not left wing enough for him.
I had pneumonia when I was 18 months old and I was given penicillin, which I was allergic to, and since then my teeth have been yellow.
I was never a ringleader, but I was willing, when asked questions, to give my opinion. And when you say things quite bluntly, it's very easy for people to hang their hats on that.
My mum taught me the power of protest.
My mum was always extremely political. I have fond memories of making signs as a child for the nuclear disarmament protests at Greenham Common, or helping her bake cakes for them.
To liberate women and end violence is to break down the culture of power imbalance.
I've never bent the knee to anyone in my life.
Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.
All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents are really political.
To be honest, I've always been forthright.
There's something wrong with the Labour party. There's something wrong with the fact that women never rise to the top.
Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision.
In every single place I have campaigned in and every single place I have lived, people want some fairly basic things. They want to believe that they are safe, they want to know that their children will be educated and that if they are ill, they will be made better.
The NHS was hard to deliver, so was the minimum wage. It's time now - we need to have a proper conversation about how much is the individual cost, how much is the burden that we're all going to share together, and how much are we going to put on older adults now versus a future system like national insurance.
Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.
I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.
I wanted to be an MP who was normal. I believe in politics, I'm a proud parliamentarian, and I want people to want parliamentarians again.
I am utterly ambitious. I'm ambitious for the sake of being so, too.
I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.
I do find it funny, actually, why I'm not more of a Corbyn fan. I am a classic Corbyn fan, really. Not so much on the foreign policy, but I'm leftwing, pro-immigration, pro-welfare spending, there's very little that we wouldn't agree on.
My childhood dream was to be prime minister.
I've made a career out of being able to talk about difficult things, and that comes from growing up in an environment where nothing was embarrassing.
I am Left-wing. I am a socialist. I believe in sharing wealth. There's no two ways about it.
My favourite film is probably 'Star Wars'. I do love 'Starship Troopers', it is a great film but it's not a film I watch over and over again. Whereas 'Star Wars' I've watched over and over again all my life, and it's a film I can tolerate watching with my children.
I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.
There's not a single diet I haven't been on.
The fact that I stick up for women doesn't mean that I think all men are rapists. But that's lost somewhere in translation. Obviously I don't think that. I married one! I gave birth to two of them.
We have got to be brave and bold and bring people with us, not try and look all ways. Trying to please everyone usually means we have pleased no one.
The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.
I'm the kind of leader who would try to have honest and difficult conversations.
I think power will do anything to survive and one of its main techniques is the rule of exceptions. So it makes an exception out of people and we worship them, whether that's Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. These people become beatified beyond recognition.
I'm stunned at the amount of young women who get in touch with me every single day, trying to become somebody like me. As a teenager, I would never have done that. And I was someone who was interested in politics. But I wouldn't have emailed the local MP.
I enjoy taking people on on Twitter, because often I'm cleverer and funnier.
One of the things I want to achieve in the potentially short time I'm in Westminster is to stop people thinking we're all the same. Because while they believe that, the establishment stays in the same people's hands.
Because I sometimes shopped in Waitrose, I thought I was actually quite posh. I've realised that I'm basically a scullery maid. Even the middle-class people who I meet in parliament, people who live in London - which I think is remarkable because how can anybody afford to live there - seem much, much more middle class than me.
Any MP who deals with immigration a huge amount, which I do, is going to worry about giving powers to the executive to change immigration law without scrutiny.
If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most important part of my identity. I'm not always sure I feel English or British, but I always feel like a Brummie.
