Women
Only four women have held any of the Great Offices of State. Out of the four Offices, three have been held by women; Chancellor of the Exchequer is the only position that has not.
- Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990)
- Foreign Secretary: Margaret Beckett (2006–2007)
- Home Secretary: Jacqui Smith (2007–2009), Theresa May (2010–present)
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Famous quotes containing the word women:
“Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others—first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one’s own interests and desires. Carried to its “perfection,” it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.”
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)
“The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: “That women are timid:” And ‘tis well they are—else there would be no dealing with them.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)