Consequence Quote by Hilary Mantel

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by…

— Christopher Hitchens

We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What did we…

— Hilary Mantel

Now that we've made that decision, everyone is thinking about the practical consequences and I think Theresa May could be the most challenging prime…

— Jeremy Hunt

[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth.

— Irvine Welsh

The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

— Cornel West

I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

— Anonymous

“I never swallowed in its entirety the free-market rhetoric of the Thatcherites. But I deeply sympathized with Thatcher’s motives. She wanted the electorate to…

— Roger Scruton

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

— Steven Morrissey

I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

— Denise Mina

I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century.…

— Tony Benn

It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.

— Hilary Mantel

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

— John Major