Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies. — Carol Thatcher Inspirational Copy Share Image
I never watch any movies or mini series regarding the Thatcher Years. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
I left influencing the media to other members of my family, like my Mum. — Carol Thatcher Family Copy Share Image
There is something about my mother that drives her critics slightly potty, so they resort to wild invention to get at her. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
My mother was prone to calling me by her secretaries' names and working through each of them until she got to Carol. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
All my childhood memories of my mother, is that of someone who was just superwoman, before the phrase was even invented. — Carol Thatcher Childhood Copy Share Image
You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister's child. — Carol Thatcher Children Copy Share Image
Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
When you're on the wrong side of 50 there are few opportunities for adventure. So you grab them while you can. — Carol Thatcher Adventure Copy Share Image
The idea that my mother would go around swearing after a personal setback is ridiculous. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
Any spat involving the name of my mother, Britain's longestserving Prime Minister of the 20th century, seems to have pulling power. — Carol Thatcher Mother Copy Share Image
That's the worst thing about dementia: it gets you every time. Sufferers look and act the same but beneath the familiar exterior… — Carol Thatcher Another world Copy Share Image
A mother cannot reasonably expect her grown-up children to boomerang back, gushing cosiness and make up for lost time. Absentee Mum, then… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
I remember the moment it first hit me that my mother's memory was no longer the extraordinary phenomenon it had been all… — Carol Thatcher Life Copy Share Image
It's not always easy to make polite, lunchtime conversation with a mother who for decades has had international leaders and statesmen to… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
Unloved is not the right word... but I never felt I made the grade. Mark was a blond, very attractive little boy,… — Carol Thatcher Cricket Copy Share Image
I studied law at university and wanted to go on a working holiday in Sydney. I got a job at the Sydney… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
I never had the opportunity to become high-handed, because I had to go on earning a living as a journalist. Unlike my… — Carol Thatcher Brother Copy Share Image
As a mother in the 1950s, she did not impose the same strict religious routine on myself and my brother, Mark, though… — Carol Thatcher Brother Copy Share Image
Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough… — Carol Thatcher Britain Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I watched mainly films on TV and pop programmes like 'Top of the Pops.' — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
As far as 'The Crown' goes I think that it is irrelevant and ridiculous that I turn up at all! — Carol Thatcher Crown Copy Share Image
I wrote a tennis book about Chris Evert and her then-husband, John Lloyd. It was called 'Lloyd on Lloyd' and became a… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
One of my fondest memories is of our skiing trips. Mum's approach to the sport was methodical, doing all the manoeuvres correctly… — Carol Thatcher Approach Copy Share Image
I guess you can get politicians out of politics, but you can't get politics out of them. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
