Neil Ascherson (in 1999) remembers Naomi Mitchison, prolific author, controversialist, honorary mother of an African tribe:
She was wise, having lived through much personal turmoil, and brave: somebody who lived out her feminism in days when love and freedom could carry grim penalties… If intelligent people shouted long and loud enough at governments, she believed, truth would prevail. She often did prevail.
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