At the Newsweek interview I said I hoped to become a writer, and the man who interviewed me assured me that women weren’t writers at Newsweek. It would never have crossed my mind to object, or to say, «You’re going to turn out to be  wrong about me.» It was a given in those days that if you were a woman and you wanted to do certain things, you were going to have to be the exception to the rule. I was hired as a mail girl, for $55 a week. (Nora Ephron in My First New York – Early Adventures in the Big City, HarperCollins 2010)

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1. by Manuela on luglio 12th, 2012 at 11:29

   The first « stage of girldom at Newsweek».
   Disponibile anche in ebook su Amazon. Sì, leggibile anche se non si è “fortunati possessori” di un Kindle.

2. by david on agosto 8th, 2012 at 18:50

   exception, a parte la mamma

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