Margaret Thatcher

More from Margaret Thatcher

• Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren’t.

  • Leadership

• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  From an interview for Italian television (RAI) (10 March 1986)

  • Debate

• In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

  Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds, delivered at the Royal Albert Hall (May 20, 1965); as quoted in Why Women Should Rule the World, HarperCollins (2008), Dee Dee Myers, p. 227

  • Politics
  • Women

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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