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Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.