But she has also worked hard to provide the press corps with red meat.

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Sure, she's worked hard, but she's had a gilded life.

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Severely dyslexic, she worked hard to get through school and the SATs, but gained acceptance to Tufts after writing a passionate essay that explained her disorder.

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It was true that when times were hard Mrs Brown had worked in a school kitchen, but she had had a more dignified job in the Post Office.

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And she worked hard, and she was good at what she did, but like so many women she hit that glass ceiling, and watched men no more qualified than she was -- men she had actually trained -- be promoted up that ladder ahead of her.

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But it is better to have ten women in parliament who have worked hard and deserve to be there, she insists, than to have many more who have no idea what they are doing.

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