By Justine Lee Musk
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I went through a period in my life where people kept telling me how ‘strong’ I was. You must be very strong. You’re such a strong woman. You’re strong!
It got annoying.
And not because I disagreed with the premise.
I just didn’t understand why this wasn’t the assumption to begin with.
The bar for my behavior seemed set rather low. All I had to do to exceed expectations was to refuse to live down to them.
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Strength in and of itself is not strategic, and it’s not necessarily powerful, and I wonder if we tend to forget that.
A strategic woman, a powerful woman, is a brilliantly disruptive woman.
She’s dangerous.
I admire women who are dangerous.
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But the major reason I tend to roll... More...
