When Social arrangements are taken for granted....

.... There comes an exception, every once in a while. And more seldom, the ripple is caused by a woman.

I was so impressed when i read about Catharine Drew G Faust... the new Harvard University President. She was raised to be a rich man's wife and she ended up as the president of the most powerful university in the world. While her brothers went to Princeton, she could not because Princeton did not admit women in the 1960's!!! But she managed to thrive in a world where women were second class citizens (and arguably still are). But she says her secret was one step at a time. She did things she thought she couldn't ever do.

I relate to that realism. Its amazing how much people have achieved in a lifetime. And how for some people, there is never any such meaning associated with life.