“We were careful to say to ourselves that if we don’t get married it’s fine, but the romantic ideal was that you would find this wonderful man and marry and have children,” says Katrina. In those days, Marie was resistant to much feminist thought. Pioneers of the new discipline of “women’s studies” were regarded as humorless and shrill, an image that repelled her. She didn’t question the accepted view of what made a woman attractive; she just wanted to ensure that, whatever it was, she had it. Without downplaying her intelligence or ambition, she found ways of pleasing men, sometimes by being
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