The worship of Thomas More goes beyond Catholics.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!

We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What did we call Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher? When she was minister of education, she stopped the children's free school milk. This may sound quaint, but after the war we were such a malnourished nation that part of the founding of the welfare state were public health initiatives. Every little schoolchild got milk. Mrs. Thatcher stopped it. They called her "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher."