28 Quotes by Carol Thatcher

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain’s first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle.

Reality hasn’t really intervened in my mother’s life since the seventies.

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum’s missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

It's not always easy to make polite, lunchtime conversation with a mother who for decades has had international leaders and statesmen to engage with in potentially world-changing discussions.

My mother was prone to calling me by her secretaries' names and working through each of them until she got to Carol.

That's the worst thing about dementia: it gets you every time. Sufferers look and act the same but beneath the familiar exterior something quite different is going on. They're in another world and you cannot enter.

One of my fondest memories is of our skiing trips. Mum's approach to the sport was methodical, doing all the manoeuvres correctly and carefully.

Any spat involving the name of my mother, Britain's longestserving Prime Minister of the 20th century, seems to have pulling power.