British Counterpart

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“The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.”
—Tony Benn (b. 1925)

“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)