The Iron Lady‘s Meryl Streep pays tribute to late Margaret Thatcher

Distressing news broke to shock the entire world that Britain’s first and only female Prime Minister till date, Margaret Thatcher has left the world forever at the age of 87, after suffering from a fatal stroke. After hearing the shocking news, the Hollywood actress, Meryl Streep who recently brought alive the eminent personality inThe Iron Ladyand bagged an Oscar for the same, issued a mourning statement as a tribute to the departed soul, focusing on her career and life.

Streep praised Thatcher as saying, “Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.” She stated more, “It is hard to imagine a part of our current history that has not been affected by measures she put forward in the UK at the end of the 20th century.”The Iron Ladyhelped Streep receive the 17th Academy Award nomination and winning it for the Best Actress at the 2012 Oscars. She also won the third Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Drama and her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Streep described the deceased lady as, “To me she was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit.” “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,” she added.

Here comes the full statement from Meryl Streep as a tribute to Margaret Thatcher, “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 the UK at the end of the 20th century. Her hard-nosed fiscal measures took a toll on the poor, and her hands-off approach to financial regulation led to great wealth for others. There is an argument that her steadfast, almost emotional loyalty to the pound sterling has helped the UK weather the storms of European monetary uncertainty. But to me she was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit. 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. To have won it, not because she inherited position as the daughter of a great man, or the widow of an important man, but by dint of her own striving. To have withstood the special hatred and ridicule, unprecedented in my opinion, leveled in our time at a public figure who was not a mass murderer; and to have managed to keep her convictions attached to fervent ideals and ideas- wrongheaded or misguided as we might see them now-without corruption- I see that as evidence of some kind of greatness, worthy for the argument of history to settle. 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 honored 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. I wish to convey my respectful condolences to her family and many friends.”