Iron Lady Quotes - Page 4

• Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Iron, Leader, Steel

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• Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  Iron, Prime, Ministers

  "Screen Shot" by Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. February 6, 2012.

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• We have become a grandmother.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  Quoted in Times (London), 4 Mar. 1989

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• The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made.

  Enoch Powell

  Pride, Next Week, Two

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