Secretarial Quotes

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.