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I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady. -- Michele Bachmann
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher. -- Elton John
My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement. -- Ashley Jensen
I'm a big fan of Katt Williams, Jim Gaffigan, Louie CK, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, Rich Vas, Joey Vega and Matt Claybrooks. -- Chris Rock
Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies. -- Roxane Gay
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. -- George H. W. Bush
My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good. -- John Lydon
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. -- Timothy Dalton
It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. -- Douglas Alexander
Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology. -- Neil Kinnock
Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray. -- James Meade
It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat. -- Jim Webb
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966. -- Karen DeCrow
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. -- Anthony Holden
Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around - decisively - the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries. -- Paul Johnson
It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism. -- Nancy Reagan
The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them. -- David Icke
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street. -- Jimmy Reid
Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history. -- Monica Crowley
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. -- Henry Louis Gates
Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.' -- Maurice Saatchi
Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. -- Judy Blume
[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things. -- Vanessa Kirby
I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently. -- Carly Fiorina
WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret. -- Dave Barry
The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher. -- Gloria Steinem
The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative. -- Robert Rhodes James
She ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to talk down to anyone -- Austin Mitchell
Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about. -- Octavia Butler
I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect. -- Bob Hawke
I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century. -- Vanessa Kirby
My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me. -- Ryne Sandberg
The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin. -- Steven Morrissey
I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron) -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. -- Pat Conroy
As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down. -- Julian Critchley
John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975. -- Edward Leigh
Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics, -- Meryl Streep
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher. -- Cornel West
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. -- Mickey Spillane
That external struggle mirrors the struggle of this life force of energy that [princess Margaret] was. -- Vanessa Kirby
My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817) -- Thomas Carlyle
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) -- Joseph Brodsky
Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously. -- Bob Hawke
Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women's. Margaret Thatcher was a lady's lady. -- Louise Burfitt-Dons
I really enjoyed stepping into that side of [princess Margaret] and being silly and naughty and fun. -- Vanessa Kirby
I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models. -- Sarah Palin
Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht. -- Douglas Hurd
I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes. -- John Major
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature. -- Eleanor Catton
If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus. -- Jonathan Aitken
Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself? -- E. M. Forster
But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ... -- Gene Stratton-Porter
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. -- George Stigler
It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost. -- Denis Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change -- Ed Miliband
No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities. -- Stella Atrium
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. -- H. G. Wells
Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good. -- Simon Hoggart
It's a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we're happy. -- Bern Will Brown
Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement -- Edward Heath
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well. -- Ronald Reagan
Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Margaret Thatcher once said, "If you want something talked about, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." -- Carly Fiorina
I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell. -- Shannen Doherty
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. -- A. N. Wilson
I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant. -- Vanessa Kirby
It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill. -- Nigel Lawson
The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher. -- Simon Hoggart
my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy. -- Louise Erdrich
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. -- Douglas Hurd
Margaret is the most beautiful woman I've laid eyes on. The men in this county must be crazy not to see that. -- Colleen Coble
Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against. -- Martin Parr
Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost. -- Alice Hoffman
He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician. -- Chris Patten
You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn. -- Rodney Atkins
Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea. -- Arundhati Roy
A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter. -- Susan Cheever
Margaret Thatcher said,you know the problem with socialism is that eventually it will run out of other people's money. And she was absolutely right. -- Jedediah Bila
I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp. -- Denis Healey
I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself. -- Vanessa Kirby
Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart would do. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
My parents think the longer the name, the more powerful the sorcerer, so they named me Cassandra Morgan Ursula Margaret Scot. You can call me Cassie. -- Christine Amsden
Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done. -- Edward Abbey
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When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher. -- Kenny Everett
Mrs. Margaret sigh heavy. Then she standing up, and starting make her own tea. She drink it in very thirsty way, like angry camel in the desert. -- Xiaolu Guo
Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I must go; -Margaret!- -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. -- Douglas Hurd
He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret! -- Elizabeth Gaskell
For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair. -- Tim Yeo
I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite. -- Martin Jacques
In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome. -- Edward Heath
I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. "?Margaret -- Jacqueline Woodson
I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home. -- Frederick Sanger
I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.' -- Alexandra Roach
Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like. -- Harvey Weinstein
Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships. -- Nina Bawden
For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person (on Margaret Thatcher) -- Frankie Boyle
I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine... -- Elizabeth Gaskell
He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do you see me?Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl -- Kami Garcia
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I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret's costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth's were. -- Vanessa Kirby
I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead. -- Alan Furst
Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one. -- Roxane Gay
I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters. -- Sophie Thompson
She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline -- maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents' generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones. -- Rainbow Rowell
You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that. -- John Major
Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. -- Timothy Dalton
At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated. -- Vanessa Kirby

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