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She has been talking about all of the decisions she made in her life - from how she juggled between work and family, how she managed marriage when she tells something wrong in her life, how she always supports her husband’s decision, yet hold tight on everything she owns rather than dropping all for her husband. Inspiring, because I can see all of those are just part of life.

Grow up strong and centrées and also un accommodating to any form of old school patriarchy: I didn’t want them to every believer that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.

I start to end here and will come back later, as at this point, she talked about her life of balancing between child caring and her husband of running for US congress. So far, she shows her life as always going upward and her career path really proves the idea that occupation is not really a straight line but rather with changes. She showed as every decision can be though to make and obviously hardship is not uncommo

“Don’t worry. You can do this. Well figure it out. “
“Instead of teaching girls to be nice, teach them to be outspoken.”

She failed the bar exam:
1. She always over prepare any big exams
2. She burned out at law school as she found the content quite boring and the most interesting part is to volunteer at legal aid bureau

He assured me to just go for it(switching from the stable lawyer job abruptly into a new field) , to erase the worries and go towards whatever I thought would make me happy.
“The unknown wasn’t gonna kill me.”
“Don’t worry. You can do this. We’ll figure it out.”

How did she manage it?

She started to ask to be given more challenging assignments and at the same time kept an eye on job postings and networked with people who are not in law.

When she was confused and bounced between expenses and fulfillment. Her mom said “I say make the money first and worry about your happiness later.”

“Nothing was impossible, but nothing looked simple. “
“She (her mom) kept her hair short and wore a practical, in fussy clothes . “ “my mother was a force. She had little tolerance for fools.”

“ he had tried out something, gotten to know all sorts of people and learned his own priorities along the way.”