An important counter-perspective to the dominant focus in many pockets of Bay Area culture on Feeling over Thinking, from Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the only woman to have held the office.

On Feelings versus Ideas:

“What? What am I ‘bound to be feeling?’ People don’t think anymore. They feel.

‘How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel comfortable. I’m sorry, we as a group we’re feeling….’

One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Thoughts and ideas. That interests me. Ask me what I’m thinking.”