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It’s just having the guts to have a go; the want and the need, the need is very heavy. You get some people saying, ‘Who’s the male behind this?’ ‘What does your husband do for a living?’ or ‘When did daddy buy you this?’ Or they say ‘Haven’t you done well!’ If I was a 35-year old male, quite honestly to have a three bedroom house and an XR2 [sports car], that wouldn’t be considered clever. I am clever for avoiding marriage.
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© 1997 Gillian A. Dunne
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Dunne, G.A. (1997). Gender, sexuality and employment opportunity. In: Lesbian Lifestyles. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25192-6_4
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