Bolton Women's Liberation History project

 

"After I had the children it was just accepted that I wouldn't work. I was always an avid reader and one day I brought home a copy of Betty Friedan and everything she was saying made such total sense" Patricia

 

 

"In 1971 I picked up a leaflet about Women's Liberation at the Octagon Theatre. I wasn't sure that I wanted to go at first. However I did know that women did not receive equal pay. And, I'd not been allowed to buy a tape recorder from Dixon's without my husband's signature." Elaine

 

 

 


"On arrival in Bolton I sought out the women's group as a source of social companionship and political action. I recall walking miles round the block ( I got lost!)... to my first meeting in September 1975. It was great to have friends/sisters round the corner and some of the best years of my life were those in Bolton." Sue


"I was brought up in Northern Ireland by strictly Catholic parents, and I was educated by nuns from the ages of five to eighteen...as far back as I can remember I was aware that I and my sisters were treated differently from our brothers." Briege