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To Ann and LizzieW, I am so pleased that the years seem to have brought some comfort and happiness, despite those difficult and oppressive experiences.

Thank goodness times have changed, and are still changing, surely for the better. I am convinced that at the root of the greater problems we faced lay the inequalities between the sexes. However there is a long way to go yet. I don't think I'll see in my lifetime a stage in which women will be equal in number to men in government, commerce, industry and in all social strata. Where all women don't have to rely on men for income or anything else, and where women will be given the same due respect as men. Nevertheless, the good news is that our society has advanced in these respects, but one only has to look at the rest of the world to know that mass destruction, hate and oppression is being caused by men, and until women all over the world are able to benefit from education there will always be similar sorts of difficulties for other women - stigma, control, abuse, fear and untold sadness.