(Exchange with Winston Churchill)Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which the Lady Astor retorted, "Sir, you are not handsome enough to have such fears".

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In a nutshell, Lady Astor never wished to be seen as a threat to Winston Churchill. In Parliament one day, she responded to a statement from the prime minister by saying, "I have been told that I am not handsome enough to have such fears". Churchill apparently took this as a challenge and replied, "Lady Astor, you are not ugly enough to have such thoughts"

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