It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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

