Every day, in this mostly male world, you have to figure out, “Do I get this by charming somebody? By being strong? Or by totally allowing my aggression out?” You’ve got to risk failure. The minute you want to keep power—you’ve become subservient, somebody who does work you don’t believe in.
ATTRIBUTION:
Paula Weinstein (b. 1945), U.S. movie company executive. First quoted in Ms. magazine (December 1977). As quoted in The Decade of Women, by Suzanne Levine and Harriet Lyons (1980).
