Iron Lady

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

He brought me up to believe all the things I do believe, and they are just the values on which I’ve fought the election. And it’s passionately interesting to me that the things that I learned in a small town in a very modest home are just the things that I believe have won the election.

independence of the individual and the role of private charity,

strong sense of duty:

Labour isn’t working’.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

e shall try to make haste slowly.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.

a man with a reasonable income, he was able to support her while she read for the Bar, and later, when they had children – Margaret gave birth to twins, Mark and Carol, in 1953 – he was able to pay for a nanny to enable Margaret to continue with her career. This was no doubt very helpful to her when it came to choosing to pursue a career in politics.