“It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.”

Meaning

This reads as a mixed statement, opening with approval of women in professional power while ending with a hard line against combat roles. It points to a view that accepts women in public leadership but draws a boundary around military service, and it lands as the kind of comment that can sound progressive in one breath and restrictive in the next.

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Originally said in English.

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