It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.
I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.
When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
It drove me as a kid. I couldn't bear the idea that I wasn't the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.
I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.
I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.
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