Settle for More

by Megyn Kelly

I believe I fit into a new archetype for women that thankfully we’re seeing more often: multidimensional.

in modern-day America it’s possible for a woman to be “nurturing, maternal, sexual.”

And being a lady doesn’t mean ignoring all aspects of one’s sexuality, especially on a show known for its fun, bawdy exchanges.

All that time I could have spent asking for opportunities, I had channeled instead into getting better. The work paid off. My job was secure.

A staggering one in four new moms return to work after just two weeks’ maternity leave.3 That is seriously wrong.

We cannot make decisions about our children based on what works for Fox. We have to do what works for us.”

Healing after Loss,

Pew Research Center that said women have become the breadwinners in 40 percent of households with children.

They really had been saying some crazy things on Fox Business about how damaging it was for children to have their mothers working, and how women were more the submissive type while men were really the dominant ones.

I love how her brand of feminism highlights the things we can all agree on as women—empowerment, advancement, equality, sisterhood—and steers clear of the more divisive issues.

It’s just to ask, why do we have to make the most divisive issues a key part of the feminist platform? Wouldn’t we do better to simply unite on female empowerment?

Not like the cupcakes on our nation’s campuses who need safe spaces.

I am a news anchor who has come out publicly as an independent.

But the glee the media—and the public—seem to experience in consuming each other’s personal embarrassments is disheartening to me.

My feeling on the subject of women’s equality is that it’s better to show than tell. I believe in the Steve Martin mantra, “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” I have an enormous poster of this saying in my team’s pod at Fox.

in my own experience,

We’re teaching our kids that moms support dads and dads support moms and the main goal is that the family unit thrive. They are learning the importance of true connection, because they see and feel and live it in our home. They are also learning that being unhappy at the office long-term is not acceptable.

What I know now is that the moms who make it look easy also had to learn.

It’s not that we have unlimited resources. It’s just that only women can have the babies. If society wants the human race to continue, they’re going to have to help us out here. Also, we’re talking about a time-limited situation.

The amount of free TV time Trump was given dwarfed all others.

we don’t really know each other all that well.

There’s no modern historical precedent for a mainstream political candidate targeting a journalist as Trump targeted me.

If a child can’t get attention for being good, he’ll try being bad. Any attention is better than none. The worst thing for a child is the Not Me, to feel that he’s not worthy of a response, no matter his behavior.

When I go too long without spending ample time with my children, my heart aches.

Settling for more is not an endgame—it’s an active process. It means staying aware of one’s surroundings, because “more” is a fluid concept. Life changes, and requires that we change too.

my life as an American woman.

Adversity is an opportunity, and one that has allowed me to flourish. It has made me stronger, my skin a little thicker. And as with any turmoil in your life, none of it is for nothing if you survive it and take stock.

He had set up the management such that everyone was completely devoted to him. Loyalty was prized above everything—it was a prerequisite of working for him. It was well known that those who crossed him would soon be at the receiving end of planted hit pieces in the press.

Like most sexual harassment targets, I just wanted it to stop.

while there may be an obvious cost to doing what you think is right, there are also real—though perhaps less visible—benefits.

As for the attempts to blame the victims for not speaking out sooner, it is management’s job, not that of the employees, to ensure that a company has ethical leaders who comply with the law, and to make certain that women feel safe to report any incident.

The bottom line is: the more we criticize harassment victims for their understandable reluctance to go on the record, the more women we’ll shame into silence forever.