What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I…

[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it…

— Caryl Churchill

Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of the nation.

— Hilary Mantel

[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!

— Hilary Mantel

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For…

— Hilary Mantel

[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.

— Hilary Mantel

[Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come from? She…

— Hilary Mantel

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a…

— Hilary Mantel

[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

— Hilary Mantel

[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

— Hilary Mantel

What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism.…

— Hilary Mantel

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

— Hilary Mantel

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy,…

— Hilary Mantel

[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

— Hilary Mantel

I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there…

— Hilary Mantel

[Margaret Thatcher] is a woman who, when she wrote her entry for "Who's Who," didn't include her mother. Now whether that was corrected in…

— Hilary Mantel