The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
Helen GarnerAt the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.
Helen GarnerBut I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
Helen Garner