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You got to keep all your weaknesses away, and my weakness is women. I love women too much. Which has definitely road-blocked me. I just try my best to channel my energy to other things and remain focused while making my work as fun as everything else.

When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.

Inherently, I'm not a huge extrovert, so I actually find interviews and all the glamour to be a bit challenging sometimes.

If you feel like it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.