If she'd been born a decade earlier, she reckoned giving birth out of wedlock would have landed her a life sentence scrubbing linens in a chemical haze, hard labour twice over to placate women of God and feather their nests.
Spelman attacked Labour's legacy in rural areas, citing the examples of «five rural post offices a week closed under the previous Government» and a 12times hike in fuel duty «hitting rural communities twice as hard as urban ones».