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Sunday Morning Live BBC 1 - 25th July 2010 at 10:00am
I am appearing on this hour-long live topical debate show covering religious, moral and ethical issues. Studio guests are a mix of religious leaders, commentators, opinion formers, authors and politicians. We will be discussing working women, Afghanistan and euthanasia among other subjects. I do hope you can tune in...see details
Jewish Women's Aid
I attended the Jewish Women's Aid annual luncheon on 13th of May. I remembered the difficulty I had when we were unable to keep a kosher kitchen...(read more)
Dorset W.I on 22nd April 2010
I was delighted to be speaking at the Dorset Federation of the Women's Institute on 22nd April 2010. The Women's Institute is particularly close to my heart as so many of the groups helped me during the years I ran the refuge. I had houses across the country and if we were ever in need a quick phone call to the local W.I. and whatever we needed was provided... (read more)
In Defence of the Family
Read what Professor Ruth Wisse, from Harvard has to say:
"Women’s Liberation, if not the most extreme, then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible. By defining between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and co-operation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength."I believe that we stand on an abyss in the last two years of this dark century. Those of us that believe that the family is the cornerstone of any civilisation are embattled with feminist forces that seek to destroy the role of men in the lives of women and children..(read more)
House of Lords Wednesday 14th October
To discuss the Equal Opportunities bill. I support equality of opportunity for everyone under the current laws. I do not support Equality of outcome because in this bill it will discriminate against men.
Why I loathe feminism... and believe it will ultimately destroy the family
Daily Mail - Femail article - 23rd September 2009
Erin Pizzey set up the world's first refuge for battered women in 1971 - and went on to establish an international movement for victims of domestic violence. But what she has never made public before is that her own childhood was scarred by the shocking cruelty of both her parents ... read more
The House I Grew up In - BBC Radio 4
The House I Grew up In Series 3: Erin Pizzey
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. "Campaigner, author and founder of the women's refuge movement, Erin Pizzey, explores her troubled childhood in post-war Dorset"
BBC Radio 4, broadcasting on Tuesday 09:00, 15th September 2009.
NMC Dragging their heels?
On 12th October, 2009 Baroness Oppenheim will ask a question in the House of Lords as to why it has taken six years to bring a case against two nurses who allowed atrocities to happen in a private nursing home to be heard by the National Council of Nursing and Midwifery. The NMC is the regulatory body that disciplines and registers their nursing members. What chance do the vulnerable elderly clients in nursing homes have if the NMC can drag their heels like this?
Turning 70
On February 19th 2009, I became seventy years old. I decided to evaluate the things in my long life that I could say really made me happy. Above all the events that have taken place in my life – some of them wonderful and many times tragic, my children, my grand children and my great grand son have brought me true joy.
I have always been far too fond of wine but my true drug of choice is the writing of fiction. There is nothing more addictive than sitting down at a table and creating out of things but thin air a story that allows me to loose myself in the telling at the moment when the characters step into my head and take over for the entire length of the book.
The hardest part of my life was the years I spent running the first refuge in the world. I all began in a tiny derelict house called 2 Belmont Terrace, in Chiswick, West London. Had I known what was to come in the future, I would have put down my paintbrush and run away. Once the desperate mothers and children poured through the door of the little house I was engulfed in a nightmare that was to go on for the next twelve years. Of course many of the mothers and children were warm loveable people but I also took in women and children who themselves were difficult, dangerous and violent and they need my help as well. My motto was to ‘love the unlovable’ and my religious view is that we are all God’s children and we are all deserving of his love.
Traveling has also been my great joy. I have lived all over the world and am aware of God as the great architect. The world is a beautiful, wondrous place and now because travel is open to all of us, everyone can see it for themselves.
Cooking, reading and hanging out with my family are my passionate pleasures. I am truly grateful to my web team who have created this web site so that all my efforts are now collected under one umbrella.
God bless all those who read these pages and please add your comments at Facebook and become part of the family,
