 Even though I had been accepted at college, she had made me refuse to let me go because she said it would ruin my soul. But she had made me apply to college so that they could get the school accredited. And so I had been accepted at both Vassar and at Bates where my father had gone. She allowed me simply to go to secretarial school. And so I did. And then I had to, you know, kind of learn what the language of the world was.