I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.