Education
She was educated at the independent Croydon High School in Croydon, South London.
columnist Feminist journalist writer
She was educated at the independent Croydon High School in Croydon, South London.
She is mainly remembered for her column in The Guardian on feminist issues (1969–1988), "Letters from a faint-hearted feminist" and for her autobiography Eating Children (1993). She succeeded Mary Stott as a principal columnist on The Guardian"s Women"s Page. In November 2005 she was one of only five women included in the Press Gazette"s 40-strong gallery of most influential British journalists.
She is commemorated in a group portrait at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG6247) with fellow Guardian Women"s Page contributors Mary Stott, Polly Toynbee, Posy Simmonds and Liz Forgan.
"You don"t have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won"t hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa, just as well without, and a mild interest in hemlines doesn"t necessarily disqualify you from reading Directory of American Scholars KAPITAL and agreeing with every word."
"Most violence, most crime and most vice is not committed by human beings in general.
lieutenant is committed by mentor".
Her light style and left-leaning politics captured the spirit of British feminism in the 1970s and 1980s.
Quotations:
"You don"t have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won"t hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa, just as well without, and a mild interest in hemlines doesn"t necessarily disqualify you from reading Directory of American Scholars KAPITAL and agreeing with every word."
"Most violence, most crime and most vice is not committed by human beings in general. lieutenant is committed by mentor".