David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

street. The Brits gave up. They had their
hands up. The women forced—and we
forced and we forced—until we got in,
and we got in and we broke the curfew.
I’ve often thought about it. God, it was
like—Everybody was jubilant. It was
like—We did it.
“I remember coming home and
suddenly felt very shaky and upset and
nervous about the whole episode, do you
know? I remember speaking to my father
about it afterward. I said, ‘Daddy, your
words came true. They turned on us.’
And he said, ‘True. British Army—
that’s what they do.’ He was right. They
turned on us. And that was the start of
it.”