I embrace it all. I embrace and really enjoy everything that comes with the business that I am in.
If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.
Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.
In the teams I've been at, I've been really well received.
This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
The youth thing never really, from my vantage point, slowed me down. I think the harder audience for me to gain acceptance from was the career diplomatic corps that worked with and for me in the Africa Bureau.
I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
Actors were the first people to accept me.
