“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.”
Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds, delivered at the Royal Albert Hall (May 20, 1965) ; as quoted in Why Women Should Rule the World, HarperCollins (2008), Dee Dee Myers, p. 227 : ISBN 0061140406, 9780061140402 . The Margaret Thatcher Foundation http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101374 gives the following additional information : MT spoke on the theme ‘Woman – No Longer a Satellite.’ The Evening News report of this speech is the origin of a phrase often attributed to her : ‘In politics, ... (etc., as above).’
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.”
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 5, p. 75 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'