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A Feminist's Life (sic)

when the excellent Fawcett Library wrote to me asking whether, as a famous feminist intellectual, I would like to contribute my very first typewriter (which I got at the age of 11) or my original review (written at 17) of the Patti Smith LP Horses, which got me my very first writing job at the NME, I had to laugh. Due to the fact that my life has been a series of furtive midnight flits - from home to London at 15; from Husband 1 to Husband 2 at 24; from Husband 2 to Best Girl at 35; from then on, it's best to draw a veil over swinish proceedings

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