If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have...

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

When I’m out of politics I’m going to run a business, it’ll be called rent-a-spine

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib

We have lost a great president and a great man, and I have lost a great friend,

I shan’t be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

The woman’s mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine...

We didn’t have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business.