Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography 1945-1976Ducks on the Pondis the unflinching personal story of Anne Summers, a woman who challenged the world she was given. Hers was a long journey through unfamiliar cities and a succession of low-paid typically female jobs before she emerged as a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement, award-winning journalist and ultimately a key adviser to prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. Her bookDamned Whores and God's Policewritten before she was 30, became a publishing sensation and helped change the way Australians, and especially women, see themselves. Anne Summers' story encompasses the conformity and repression of the 1950s, the political radicalism and rock music of the 1960s, and the sexual revolution, women's liberation and the Whitlam phenomenon of the 1970s. Written with wit and wry humour,Ducks on the Pondis a story of success and fulfilment achieved against considerable odds. |
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... talk honestly , but it was difficult . Needless to say , there were many ' stick sisters ' in the room and the competitive anxieties were palpable . Since many of those present knew each other , they knew who was ' on ' with whom . Was ...
... talk honestly , but it was difficult . Needless to say , there were many ' stick sisters ' in the room and the competitive anxieties were palpable . Since many of those present knew each other , they knew who was ' on ' with whom . Was ...
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... talk to Jamie about his fears . When I had written to him a few days after he was first diagnosed , I had talked about his being ' sick ' : I could not bring myself to use the word ' cancer ' . In March 1975 when I made the first of ...
... talk to Jamie about his fears . When I had written to him a few days after he was first diagnosed , I had talked about his being ' sick ' : I could not bring myself to use the word ' cancer ' . In March 1975 when I made the first of ...
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... talk and talk . I doubt if he can hear and I am not talking about anything in particular , I am just trying to ride the waves of his ramblings , hoping a word here or there may soothe him . Most of all I simply hope my voice may ...
... talk and talk . I doubt if he can hear and I am not talking about anything in particular , I am just trying to ride the waves of his ramblings , hoping a word here or there may soothe him . Most of all I simply hope my voice may ...
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