Whilst these references reveal the disdain with which she regarded some aspects of the Good Friday Agreement, what is most significant is that such public comments were so few and far between.
After the speech Tory chairman Eric Pickles told the BBC he thought it was significant there were two standing ovations during the speech - for his comments on Labour's record on poverty and on the troops in Afghanistan.
When she was pregnant, her patients often tried to touch her stomach, and their comments and observations about her size simply slowed her down and increased her already significant discomfort.