Who Said What (7) 撒切尔去世

奥巴马：

As a grocer’s daughter who rose to become Britain’s first female prime minister, she stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered.

《纽约时报》评论文章：

Her attitude on how people should live could be described as either Samuel Smiles (“Self-Help”) or Gordon Gekko (“greed... is good”). Despite being a woman who had shattered the political glass ceiling by becoming leader of her party and then prime minister, she did little to advance the cause of women generally, and would not publicly support the feminist movement. She was also unfriendly toward homosexuals, suggesting in her 1987 speech at the Conservative Party Conference that no one had a “right” to be gay.

Meryl Streep:

It is hard to imagine a part of our current history that has not been affected by measures she put forward in the UK at the end of the 20th century. I was honored to try to imagine her late life journey, after power; but I have only a glancing understanding of what her many struggles were, and how she managed to sail through to the other side.

撒切尔自己：

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

美国参议员Pat Toomey:

God bless Baroness Thatcher. Powerful, and a lady to the last: "Power is like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Donald Rumsfeld:

Margaret Thatcher was known as the Iron Lady. I can personally attest that I’ve never met a leader with more steel.

Thedailybeast.com:

At one infamous Downing Street lunch, an eminent guest forgot that she was sitting at the table behind him and joked, “Is there any truth in the rumor that Mrs. Thatcher is a woman?”

《纽约时报》社论：

She was one of the first Western leaders to recognize the reformist intentions of Mikhail Gorbachev, showed remarkable foresight on the dangers of climate change, and in general managed Britain’s global role more deftly than her successors.