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"When I casually come across someone who says, “Look, I never read the business pages, I never listen to the business news,” I think to myself, “But business is just the intersection of people and money. What could be more compelling than that?”"
"I’ve always loved business and I actually did a business degree at Waikato University. I did lots of things in it, though. I’ve always been curious, in high school I did everything you could possibly do and more. In my business degree, I did Women’s Studies, which would still be pretty unusual today, but it was unheard of 35 years ago."
"No one is more surprised than me that all these years later, that combination of being a business person and being a feminist is sort of cool now, but it definitely wasn’t cool then. I really felt like I didn’t fit in either world. There were very few women in business school in those days, and the women who were there kept their heads down and basically stayed mum and tried to survive. I have never done that, I’ve always been very stroppy."