I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.