I have always been a stubborn woman. That particular personality trait has manifested itself in so many facets of my life – in my politics, in my choice of college and major, in my extracurricular activities and my hobbies. I imagine I was a handful to try to raise because I could never just accept an answer and would fight for what I wanted until I either got grounded or got my way.
My mother called that stubbornness “drive.” She would know – I inherited it from her. She is an incredible woman who has managed to build up a successful, thriving interior design business entirely from scratch. Periodically throughout my childhood, she’d tell me that I had “so much drive” and that I could do anything I wanted. It turns out what I wanted was usually to do things the hard way.
