Margaret Thatcher was a figure of awe, says Meryl Streep

April 09, 2013 13:26

Meryl Streep, who won an Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher in the 2011 movie 'The Iron Lady', has hailed the former British premier 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,' the Herald Sun quoted her as saying.

"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 from a stroke overnight in London, at the age of 87.

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."

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