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" As a working woman at the height of my career, I know age has only enhanced my professional and personal abilities. It has brought a sense of calm to the drive for success. "
Success
Woman
Know
" Being complacent was never going to teach us anything. "
Going
Complacent
Teach
" Channel brand is so key. "
Key
Channel
Brand
" Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show. "
Add
Skies
Show
" For me, turning 65 doesn't include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I work for. "
Job
Age
Work
" If I say something, I mean it. If I promise something, best as I can, I'm going to follow through. If I say I have your back, I genuinely mean it. "
I Can
Mean
Say
" I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one. "
Day
Innovation
Kind
" I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone. "
Home
Travel
Partner
" In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.' "
Women
American
Men
" It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters. "
Game
Place
Calm
" I've never wanted to be a woman playing a guy; I love being a woman. "
Playing
Woman
Never
" I will never not take anyone's phone call. "
Phone Call
Take
Never
" My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something. "
Moral
Parents
Great
" My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment. "
Along
Back
Look
" Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life. "
Life
Differences
Discrimination
" Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television. "
Who
Gaming
Guys
" Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now. "
Science
Live
Now
" The biggest mistake to me is complacency. "
Me
Biggest
Mistake
" The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens. "
Forward
Old
Risks
" The loudest voice in the room doesn't always work. In fact, it usually grates to the point - to the point that when you really need to be loud, nobody listens. "
Work
Need
Loudest
" The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape. "
Need
Failure
Climb
" This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person who pushes, criticizes, and challenges you to meet a standard of excellence you might not otherwise achieve. "
Meet
Think
You
" To put it bluntly, I feel relevant and valuable, and I am struggling to understand why, when women reach age 65, they encounter an invisible barrier of perception that says it's time to walk away. Shouldn't we have a choice in the matter? Shouldn't our experience and energy be worth more? "
I Am
Experience
Age
" We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate. "
Hate
Born
Knowing
" We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world. "
Help
Attention
Hide
" You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react. "
People
Change
Act
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