THATCHER
ON THATCHER

I went to Oxford University – but I’ve
never let that hold me back.

Margaret Thatcher

I was told beforehand my arrival was
unscheduled, but on the way here I
passed a local cinema and it turns out
you were expecting me after all. The
billboard read The Mummy Returns.

Margaret Thatcher at a Tory Election Rally in Plymouth,
22 May 2001

I hope that one quality in which
I am not lacking is courage.

Margaret Thatcher

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a
job and get on with it when everyone
else walks off and leaves it.

Margaret Thatcher

I still do the cooking myself… rush in,
peel the vegetables, put the roast in all
before I take off my hat.

Margaret Thatcher in an interview with the Telegraph, after
becoming spokeswoman for the Treasury, March 1966

I tend to look at things more logically
than do my colleagues.

Margaret Thatcher

 

I like to be made
a fuss of by a lot
of chaps.

Margaret Thatcher

I always appreciate the
other person’s problem.

Margaret Thatcher

I cannot change my style. There are
many people who are reasonably
pleased that one gives a firm lead.

Margaret Thatcher on being criticised for not always
listening and being domineering in style

I usually make up my mind about a
man in ten seconds; and I very rarely
change it.

Margaret Thatcher

I am really very normal. I’m just a
perfectly ordinary person.

Margaret Thatcher