The Guardian | This much I know: Marjorie Wallace
5 February 2012 / The Guardian
To have done what I've done I’ve had to use a lot of Scottish grit. I've always had quite a sense of mischief, which has kept me going. My excellent staff at Sane quite often say: “Hang on, Marjorie, have you taken your seriousness pill?”
I’d always wanted to be a war reporter, but Harold Evans, my editor at the Sunday Times, never allowed me to go out on the frontline. Then I asked to go and campaign about mental health and I really did become like a war reporter – but it was in ordinary people's homes, behind the net curtains in towns and villages all over the country, where mentally ill people were being neglected.
