Quotes

The cock may crow but it's the hen that lays the egg.

Margaret Thatcher

Category: Feminism

Tags: Feminism, Ideologies, Margaret Thatcher

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

I am the kind of woman I would run away from.

Nancy Astor

Category: Feminism

Tags: Feminism, Ideologies, Nancy Astor

If the good Lord had intended us to have equal rights to go out to work, he wouldn't have created Man and Woman.

Patrick Jenkin 30/10/1979

Category: Feminism

Tags: Feminism, Ideologies, Patrick Jenkin

I personally feel very undecided whether it is better for a woman to stay and look after the home or go out to a job.

Geoffrey Howe 26/11/1986

Category: Feminism

Tags: Feminism, Geoffrey Howe, Ideologies

I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex.

Margaret Thatcher 1952

Category: Feminism

Tags: Feminism, Ideologies, Margaret Thatcher

Being in power is like being a lady - if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

Category: Feminism

Tags: Feminism, Ideologies, Margaret Thatcher

I am not a Blair Babe. I'm a Blair Witch.

Margaret Moran 2000

Category: Feminism

Tags: Feminism, Ideologies, Margaret Moran

Random Speech

Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.

Geoffrey Howe

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