Now she looks with disarming candor at her own life and at the early years in England and America when she was and "growing up tough. and " Here was no idyllic childhood. She is under no illusions about her parents, especially the strong-minded little mother who insisted that young Janet, as she was christened, could do the work of any able-bodied boy. and "In fact, and " she muses wryly, and "my parents probably invented Women's Liberation. and " thus forcing her into a fierce self-reliance which never allowed her to play and "the big female con game and " of a pampered, protected housewife.