Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Quotes

United Kingdom, Physician
April 19, 1901 – February, 4, 1980.

Edith Clara Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill CH PC was a British physician, feminist, Labour politician and writer. She was appointed to the Privy Council in 1949.

Also known as Politician, Writer, Feminist

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I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.

Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.

Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill