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What Others Said About Margaret Thatcher
• She approaches the problems of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic-strip. - Denis Healey
• Attila the Hen. - Clement Freud
• In Margaret Thatcher's view, her sex is an irrelevancy, and she is annoyed by people who make too much of a fuss over it. - Allan Mayer, biographer
• Margaret Thatcher's great strength seems to be the better people know her, the better they like her. But, of course, she has one great disadvantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughters of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve that kitchen-sink-revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school. - Rebecca West
• For the past few months she has been charging about like some bargain basement Boadicea. - Denis Healey
• Thatcher's impatience is undiminished. Head thrust forward, purse in hand, she marches on, pursuing her crusade to put the "great" back into Great Britain. - Los Angeles Times, about her third term
• When Mrs Thatcher says she has a nostalgia for Victorian values I don't think she realises that 90 per cent of her nostalgia would be satisfied in the Soviet Union. - Peter Ustinov
• She's never seen an institution she doesn't want to bash with her handbag. - Anthony Bevins
• Although a populist, she is the ultimate argument against the contention that a political leader needs, in her person, to be unpopular. - Hugh Young, biographer
• The thought that she might not be right has never crossed Mrs. Thatcher's mind. It is a strength in a politician. - Labor Party deputy leader Ray Hattersley
• Thatcher's memoirs are essential for an understanding of her time because they capture all the qualities of her character and, inevitably, some of her defects as well. They are lucid, opinionated, self-assured, wide-ranging and indispensable. - Henry Kissinger
• Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies. - Carol Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher's daughter
• The biggest story of 1982 was the Falklands war. The second biggest also involved my mother... and me. - Mark Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher's son, about his disappearance in 1982 during an automobile race
• I don't pretend that I'm anything but an honest-to-God right-winger—those are my views and I don't care who knows 'em. Denis Thatcher in 1970 about himself
• I think I have become a bit of an institution - you know, the sort of thing people expect to see around the place. - Margaret Thatcher about herself
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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