[1] In 1969, Quigley married Alistair John McLauchlan, and the couple had two children before divorcing in 1997.

[1] She spent several years overseas with her husband and family, before first standing for the National Party in the 1984 election.

[2] She had previously stood in Eastern Hutt in the 1984 election and Western Hutt in the 1987 election, and had worked as a parliamentary secretary to prominent National MPs such as John Banks, George Gair, Don McKinnon and Ruth Richardson.

She then contested the new seat of Hutt South, but was defeated by Labour's Trevor Mallard.

[3] Quigley served as executive director for the Independent Schools of New Zealand from 2000 to 2008.