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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

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Isabel Diana Colegate

Isabel Diana Colegate

Isabel Diana Colegate (September 10, 1931 - ) is a British author and literary agent.

She was born in Lincolnshire, the daughter of Sir Arthur and Winifred Mary Colgate, and was educated at Runton Hill School in Norfolk. She resides near Bath, England. In 1953 she married Michael Briggs, and the couple have two sons and a daughter.

In 1985, her novel The Shooting Party was released as an award-winning film by Castle Hill Productions Inc.

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