Not having a father always made you feel that perhaps you weren't quite the same as other people. You felt you weren't complete.

Life for women in rural Scotland is not like anywhere else in the world. We all live very far apart, and you don't just ring your girlfriend up for a cup of coffee. There really is no sense of community, no pubs, no clubs. The golf clubs are male prerogatives, and the women are isolated and have to have their own resources.

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

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