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LONDON — Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — who died Monday from a stroke at age 87 — retired from public engagements in 2002 following a series of small strokes, and was only occasionally seen in public since then.
Here are memorable quotes from her public life.
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – May 20, 1965, speech to National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds Conference.
“There are dangers in consensus: It could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. … No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.” — Oct. 10, 1968, at the Conservative Party conference.
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