Weekend: The Saturday Interview - Caroline Graham - Dissatisfaction Must Be Guaranteed

Birmingham Post › March 06, 2004

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Dissatisfaction is the greatest gift you can have.

If you are satisfied, totally satisfied, with everything, every aspect of your life, then you never strive for anything more. You never know how much life could be. You know only the little that your life is, played out within its narrow confines. Caroline Graham is a dissatisfied woman.

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Weekend: The Saturday Interview - Caroline Graham - Dissatisfaction Must Be Guaranteed

If she weren't, she wouldn't be where she is today. If she weren't, her life would have been very different.

Caroline was born into a working class family in Nuneaton. At the age of 14 she left school and went to work in Courtaulds Mill as a wefter.

And really, that should have been it. Back then, in 1944, marriage, children and grandchildren should have been the only other expectations she had, had she been satisfied, accepting of her lot.

But she wasn't.

The last 18 months of Caroline's schooling were beyond what she, with her background, could have expected.

She won a scholarship to Nuneaton High School for Girls. Until t...

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