Having It All Maeve Haran

education was power and that it was a gift to which girls should be as equally entitled as boys, had scrimped and saved to give her the best opportunities they could. With their encouragement she had gone to grammar school and on to Oxford. And steadily, with each new achievement, she had moved further and further away from them, until she had, now, almost nothing in common with them at all. And as she sat sipping her tea another memory, deep and repressed, sprang up bringing with it a sick feeling of shame