That's the worst thing about dementia: it gets you every time. Sufferers look and act the same but beneath the familiar exterior something quite different is going on. They're in another world and you cannot enter. — Carol Thatcher 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 for me. — Carol Thatcher 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 engage with… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
The idea that my mother would go around swearing after a personal setback is ridiculous. — 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 brother, I… — 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 and carefully. — Carol Thatcher 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
I studied law at university and wanted to go on a working holiday in Sydney. I got a job at the Sydney Morning Herald… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
I never watch any movies or mini series regarding the Thatcher Years. — 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 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
Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies. — 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 Copy Share Image
