“Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that ‘while the home must always be the centre of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions’.”
― The Path to Power
― The Path to Power
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
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