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b. 1952 New Zealand
Dame Marilyn Joy Waring (7 October 1952-), known as Marilyn Waring, is a New Zealand scholar, and former politician. In 1975 she was the youngest member in New Zealand's parliament for the National Party.
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I don't believe we shall ever be finished.
If you got this far, I want you to go on. Kia kaha tuahine - sister, be strong.
I made a submission opposing the Civil Union legislation. Marriage is a civil and political right, and civil and political rights are not negotiable. You can't have half a right.
I am still afraid of getting too tired, of giving up. I am still afraid of staying in the job, and afraid of leaving it.
It can also be rich and fulfilling.
Women instinctively have the potential for a broader consciousness of politics than men. Our lives are more varied and less circumscribed. We do more things at any one time, in spite of the common myths, and generally have more responsibility.
Running in all weathers. Running to the place of work. Running to despair. Running through the bottom door of the old building directly to the bathroom to be sick. Every day the same, and no way to control it. Every day my body saying, 'I can't stomach this anymore.'
And I start to dream - about the activities of women for temperance and the suffrage in this country, and about the activism of women for peace and disarmament; and I wonder if our great-grandmothers would have believed suffrage would be almost universal, and if we dare to dream of a world without nuclear weapons, without weapons, with peace.