My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.
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 made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others.
I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.
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To be honest, I've always been forthright.
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.
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 am utterly ambitious. I'm ambitious for the sake of being so, too.
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.
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.
For a party of the left to win, people have to have believe that government, the state, can be on their side. When I was a young mother, Sure Start and tax credits weren't just a financial lifeline, they represented hope.
I've never bent the knee to anyone in my life.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The desire to look strong and decisive, instead of looking human, is the fatal flaw of so many politicians, and I will never understand why the favoured path of the political class is akin to a child with chocolate smeared on their face insisting that they didn't eat the edible Christmas tree ornaments while their parents slept.
