"I Usually Make Up My Mind About a Man in Ten Seconds and I Rarely Change It," Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack me personally it means they have not a single political argument left,"

Baroness Margaret Thatcher - October 13th, 1925 - April 8th, 2013

Big Ben's bells of Westminter will be silenced on Wednesday in respect for one of the most dominant figures in the political history of the 20th Century, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, longest serving British Prime Minister of the era and the only woman to have held the office.

Which ever side of the political camp the politically inclined take to standing on, there is no disputing the fact that the grocer's daughter from Grantham, Lincolnshire, later dubbed as Britain's Iron Lady, would expect no less than massive national debate as to whether the country's tax payers should foot the bill for her stately funeral.

Vogue featured a terrific selection of some of her most famous quotes, along with a great bunch of black and white and color shots of Maggie in her various roles - wife, mother, cook, world leader.  

As a teen in Margaret Thatcher's England (she was PM from 1979 - 1990 - the year I moved to the States), it never crossed my mind that her political status was historic because she wasn't a male.