I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.