I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.
I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.
I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They've taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.
I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.