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"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."
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"We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as."

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