I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.
I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.
The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.
Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.
I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.
I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.
I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone.
Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.