“Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.)”
“Then she said, with mock horror, "She's going to bring some of her old wigs, if you can believe it." She rubbed her bare head with her free hand. "I'll look like a zombie Margaret Thatcher.”
“She found it sinful and expensive to have sugar in her tea, although she herself never spent a penny on anything.”
“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.”
“Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself?”
“I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.”