Mabel Howard

"Upon her reception to the Wellington women's branch of the Labour Party: "The women of New Zealand have at last arrived,""

"I am a very ordinary type of woman, but I can get on with all women, irrespective of their political outlook."

"Regarding her father, Edwin John Howard, a member of the Canterbury General Labourers' Union and Labour MP for Christchurch South:"I am what I am because of the training my father gave me,""

"I am going to work really hard to improve health conditions in New Zealand, because I think it is work which can best be handled by a woman."