"Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.
More by Margaret Thatcher
“Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]”
“What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel comfortable. I’m sorry, we as a group we’re feeling….' One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Thoughts and ideas. That interests me. Ask me what I’m thinking.”
“If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.”
More on Gender Roles
“Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network.”
“If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.”
“No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.”
More on Contribution
“The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.”
“Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.”
“I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.”