She spent her childhood in Nagykanizsa, Pécs and Szolnok, following the movement of the family due to different jobs taken by her father.

She received a teacher's degree majoring in History and Hungarian from ELTE university in 1972 she added philosophy in 1974.

Between 1969 and 1972, she was a teacher at Móra Ferenc High School and she taught from 1974 at Keszthely University of Agriculture[1] at the philosophy department.

Then from 1984 started working for the Central Committee of the party again handling cultural matters.

After rising through the ranks and becoming deputy department chief she limited the possibility for publication for works and writers considered dangerous by the party and allegedly took a part in the banning of the "Tiszatáj" a literary magazine in 1986.