“Very few women in public life do not worry that their voices are too high or too light or too shrill to command respect. Margaret Thatcher trained for years with a vocal coach to make her voice sound more like those of the other Hounourable Members and still she earned the nickname Attila The Hen.”
About This Quote
published in 1995
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