Wow, cake, thank you for that. An incredible piece of writing. What a friend - both of them actually.
I've just been wondering why Jenni's death particularly has me so fired up.
And I think it's because I was watching in real time how one of our major institutions demonstrated their utter distain for women. And she refused to shut up.
That article says she was told off for pointing out the sexism that Melvin Bragg's literary heroine suddenly recovered her equilibrium after some energetic sex.
And suggesting that marriage was a trap got her another bollocking, even though, as she said, “I was only quoting Mary Wollstonecraft".
So you can't suggest anything unpalatable about men, even when it's second fucking hand? On a feminist show?
How she managed to maintain her years of activism and speaking out about sexism and misogyny, without suggesting that men are entirely at the bottom of it, is a massive testament to her brilliance.
And I love that her friend, Sally, smuggled in vodka when she was in hospital. And 'hello darling, welcome to the club', when Sally was also diagnosed with breast cancer, had me in tears.
The woman should've been bloody running the BBC. Not been sidelined by it.
But as Sally points out, she's been proven right, in the end.
I'm delighted that she lived long enough to see the Supreme Court ruling.
As vindication goes, it's a biggie.