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Q2. What was my biggest obstacle?

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I think growing up in the United States, of course, a woman, a black person is discriminated against. You know, there is no way out of that. The issue is, is what do you do with the obstacles that people put in front of you.

You can buy into them, or you can give the obstacles back to that person.

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It doesn't mean that it's easy, but you can go around and you can create another path sometimes. But if you focus in on only that obstacle, then it's very hard to move forward, because that's where your attention will be drawn.

Now that doesn't mean that society is absolved from it's responsibility to remove those obstacles and those obstacle makers. But it does mean that in some sense, you have a little bit more control over it.

When people talk about the space program, they ask me, "Was it the toughest job I ever had; was it the most difficult," and it wasn't.

Probably being a Peace Corps doctor was the most difficult