I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

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

Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.