“I owe nothing to Women's Lib.”
“This lady is not for turning.”
“The battle for women's rights has been largely won.”
“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”
“The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”
“I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.”
“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”
“You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.”
“Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.”
“Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
“I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.”
“Power 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.”
“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
“If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.”
“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.”
“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”
“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.”
“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.”
“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”
“It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”
“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”
“Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked.”
“People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.”
“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”
“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.”