I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it – Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t – Margaret Thatcher

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose – Margaret Thatcher

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

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

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families – Margaret Thatcher