The pioneering journalist and broadcaster died last week at 92. In 2003, in a series for the Guardian, she shared what she had learnt in each decade of her life
I wish I had known that my choices weren’t restricted just to what I had at that moment. I wish I had known, for example, that I wasn’t resigning myself to eternal spinsterhood by breaking off my suffocating engagement to a man who wanted me to give up my hard-won place at Cambridge and get married. When I said timidly, “But what about my career?”, he said, “Many good jobs don’t require degrees.”
