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" It's an honor to be the only woman in the room a lot of times, but I wish I weren't the only woman in the room. I still have to think in a calculated way about how to speak and what to speak about. "

Nancy Dubuc

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" I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That's like self-mutilation to me. "

" Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would. "

" What I see around the management team meetings and the conference tables I sit at is that there isn't that same comfort level in other women who are rising the ranks. And I don't know how to fix that. "

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" When I think about too much content out there, one of the things that comes to mind for me is just the volume of really outstanding creators there are. "

Nancy Dubuc

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Just

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