Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

You must always do what you feel is right.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.