I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

This lady is not for turning.

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.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

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

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 to have a touch of iron about you.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.