Biographies Quote by Hilary Mantel

I was out of the U.K. as a care-free, fun-loving student for much of Mrs. Thatcher's time in Downing Street, and as I didn't…

— Stephen Hough

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and…

— Alexandra Roach

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

— Hilary Mantel

“Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen…

— Morrisey

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 Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Like all of us, there were many facets to Margaret Thatcher's personality. In private she was kind, thoughtful, charming. Very attentive to her interlocutors.…

— Brian Mulroney

I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair…

— Martin Jacques

Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images.…

— Stuart Hall

If you aspired and wanted to get on in life, as so many immigrants families did, Margaret Thatcher was your champion, your role model,…

— Alok Sharma

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to…

— Abi Morgan