Margaret Thatcher
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
This lady is not for turning.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.
Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.