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5 Quotes filtered by Barbara Castle

I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.

Barbara Castle 05/10/1969

Category: Flirtation, Feminism

Tags: Barbara Castle, Feminism, Flirtation, Ideologies, Miscellaneous

She is so clearly the best man among them.

Barbara Castle 11/02/1975

On Margaret Thatcher

Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)

Tags: Barbara Castle, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about), Quotes About...

If she would only occasionally come in with a smut on her nose, her hair dishevelled, looking as if she's been wrestling with her soul, as I do.

Barbara Castle

Category: Appearance, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)

Tags: Appearance, Barbara Castle, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about), Politics, Quotes About...

Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

Barbara Castle 01/1991

Category: Conservative Party

Tags: Barbara Castle, Conservative Party, Political Parties

A timid old Tory.

Barbara Castle 18/09/1980

On James Callaghan

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Barbara Castle, Insulting Labour, Insults

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It was like losing my mother. My mother is still alive but one day she won't be, and when that occurs it will, I suspect, be exactly like the day that Margaret Thatcher resigned.

Michael Brown

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