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And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly…

— Meryl Streep

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

— Hilary Mantel

By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.

— Craig Brown

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

— Hilary Mantel

The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret] Thatcher. Who'd…

— Irvine Welsh

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

— Edward Heath

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

— Douglas Hurd

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences…

— Neil Kinnock

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

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

— Steven Morrissey

Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but I don't…

— Andrea Riseborough