"There is a nonsense about intelligent women..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.
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“In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.”
“When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.”
“I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.”
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“LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.”
“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.”
“One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.”
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“I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.”
“The bold are helpless without cleverness.”
“The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.”