It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.
“The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.”
“My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.”