"…so long as we have a monetization model of information that prioritizes the wrong stakeholders — advertisers over readers — we will always cater to the business interests of the former, not the intellectual interests of the latter."

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More controversially perhaps, Ms. McGregor unapologetically puts her career first — ahead of children, husband and friends, she says. Among her top tips for women who want to make it to the top: accumulate skills (if you’ve got a mediocre degree from a mediocre university, get another one from a good one); build your network; become financially literate (not least so you know what interest rate you’re paying on your credit card debt); outsource at home and delegate at work; scrap the sentence “I can’t do it” from your vocabulary (Ms. McGregor, 49, learned how to fly a plane at 47 and how to shoot a gun at 43. “Do men take you seriously if you are 49 and have a B.M.I. of 37?” she asked. “No, but they do if you have a gun in your hand.”); and, crucially, learn to say “No.”

Success, then, is about prioritizing some things and about sacrificing others. Men have long had the luxury of focusing more single-mindedly on their careers as their wives ran the house and minded the children.

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"The TV belongs to Chris’s boyfriend, and so I shouldn’t have broken it. But I promised myself if the talking-head thing said “Of course we should be tolerant of gays,” one more time I would kick in the TV, and if you can’t trust your own word, what can you trust?"

"some women who are in a situation which is terrible for them don’t see a way out, so they adapt. and one way to adapt is: to find pleasurable what is not, because you can’t live in total pain all the time."