Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

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

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.