FIRST LADY

摘要

When Cherie Blair was called to the Bar in 1976, women weren't popular. "People would say to me, 'Girls don't do litigation because their voices aren't suitable - they are too light, they don't carry," she recalls. "Or, they'd say, 'We don't want a woman on this case - because the clients wouldn't like it.'" Assuming her personality then was similar to what it is today - funny, disarmingly charming, entirely without airs - it is obvious why the young Cherie wasn't put off. "We were stuck with this idea that caring was for women and fighting sabre-toothed tigers was for men," she says. "But we don't have sabre-toothed tigers any more."