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“Whatever comes,” she said, “cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
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May 4, 1979: Margaret Thatcher Becomes Prime Minister
On this day in 1979, Great Britain swore in its first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher represented the Conservative Party and she was re-elected for two additional terms.
Throughout her three terms, Thatcher cut social welfare programs, limited trade unions, and cut government spending. Thatcher was dubbed the nickname “The Iron Lady” due to her strict conservative agenda and dislike for socialism.
On April 8, 2013, Margaret Thatcher passed away. News of her death brought back memories of her time as prime minister for Britons. View the NewsHour’s photo gallery of Thatcher’s funeral and its protestors.
Image: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with President Jimmy Carter at the White House, Washington, D.C 1977 (Library of Congress).
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“Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.” -
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