This document contains a collection of quotes attributed to Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The quotes provide insights into her views on leadership, gender roles, and politics including her belief that understanding homemaking can inform governing, the importance of hard work, and her preference for action over just talk from her ministers.

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

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4. I do not
know anyone
who has got
to the top
without
hard work.
That is the
recipe. It
will not
always get
you to the
top, but
should get
you pretty
near.

5. Being
powerful
is like
being a
lady. If
you have
to tell
people
you are,
you
aren't.

6. I am in
politics
because of
the
conflict
between
good and
evil, and I
believe
that in the
end good
will

7. I don't mind how much myI don't mind how much my
Ministers talk, so long asMinisters talk, so long as
they dothey do
what I say.what I say.

8. I am
extraordinaril
y
patient,
provided I get
my own way in
the end.

9. I like
Mr
Gorbachev,
we can do
business
together.

10. I love
argument, I
love debate. I
don't expect
anyone just to
sit there and
agree with me,
that's not
their job.

11. Being prime
minister is a
lonely job...
you cannot
lead from the
crowd.

12. If you want something said, ask a man;If you want something said, ask a man;
if you want something done, ask aif you want something done, ask a
woman!woman!