Streep: She was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit
US actress Meryl Streep, who won an Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher in the 2011 movie The Iron Lady, hailed the former British premier Monday as a trailblazer for women.
"Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics. It is hard to imagine a part of our current history that has not been affected by measures she put forward in Britain,” she said.
"But to me she was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit," she added in a statement released after Thatcher's death Monday in London, at the age of 87.
"To have come up, legitimately, through the ranks of the British political system, class bound and gender phobic as it was, in the time that she did and the way that she did, was a formidable achievement."
Streep noted that Thatcher won the British premiership not because she inherited the position as the daughter of a great man, or the widow of an important man, but by dint of her own striving.
“Thatcher also "withstood the special hatred and ridicule, unprecedented in my opinion, levelled in our time at a public figure who was not a mass murderer," she added, referring to the fierce opposition to many of Thatcher's policies.
"To have managed to keep her convictions attached to fervent ideals and ideas -wrongheaded or misguided as we might see them now, I see that as evidence of some kind of greatness."
She added: "To have given women and girls around the world reason to supplant fantasies of being princesses with a different dream: the real-life option of leading their nation; this was groundbreaking and admirable.
"I was honoured to try to imagine her late life journey, after power. But I have only a glancing understanding of what her many struggles were, and how she managed to sail through to the other side."
GMT 06:01 2018 Saturday ,20 January
How to take a bullet, by 'Den of Thieves' star 50 CentGMT 08:40 2018 Thursday ,18 January
Brigitte Bardot slams #MeToo 'publicity-seeking' actressesGMT 09:52 2018 Tuesday ,16 January
The Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies aged 46GMT 06:46 2018 Friday ,12 January
Elvis fans all shook up on Australia party trainGMT 10:19 2018 Wednesday ,10 January
And maybe Oprah, US celebrity politicians aboundGMT 09:45 2018 Monday ,08 January
As Globes mark cinema's successes, audiences shy awayGMT 10:39 2018 Sunday ,07 January
Golden Globes celebrate the year of the genre movieGMT 10:15 2018 Friday ,05 January
Men in black mocked for flimsy #MeToo supportMaintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©
Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©
Send your comments
Your comment as a visitor