Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not say
“I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.”
“It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.”