Backgrounds Quote by 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 pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

— Hilary Mantel

If Margaret Thatcher were running for president today we wouldn't have focus groups and we wouldn't have one day focusing on 'change' and the…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

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

— Irvine Welsh

My mum loved Margaret Thatcher and it was always this image of this amazing powerful woman who refused to be messed around - that…

— Heidi Allen

Of course Margaret Thatcher was a remarkable and strong-willed figure but she was also a pragmatist, just as ready to upset her right wing…

— Nick Boles

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.

— Bob Hawke

As a woman, I think Margaret Thatcher felt she had to be ten times more prepared than the men.

— Phyllida Lloyd

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

— Hilary Mantel

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

— Hilary Mantel