Diane sweeps her pale blue eyes over me. “This is the way the world is, Trishara. You have to learn to pick your battles. Be a lion when it comes to business as you did with David and his son, but if you want to get where I am, you learn to smile, bear it, and look the other way when it comes to the other stuff. They’ll never respect you for that.” Her words thud to the bottom of my heart with an echo. “But don’t you want to make it better for the next generation? Don’t you want to change things so the women who come after you don’t have to put up with this?”
