Betty Boothroyd Quotes
It will be a lonelier life than I have ever known before.
Commenting on her election as Speaker:
Betty Boothroyd, Speaker, British House of Commons (Labor), Quoted in New York Times, April 28, 1992
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Describing the life of a female cabinet minister in Ottawa: Canada's first female Prime Minister
For almost a decade she was the only Black female member of Congress.
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd OM, PC, Hon. FSLL is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. From 1992 to 2000, she served as Speaker of the House of Commons. She is the only woman to have served as Speaker. She is one of the two living former Speakers of the House of Commons. She sits, by tradition, as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords.