Julia Sweeney
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But I wish I had stuck with economics because I still to this day can't get enough of economics.
But in a big scale, not in a business way, but like economics of the world kind of way.
One piece of advice that she did give you that I was really inspired by, she was talking about who you were going to marry, and you said you wanted to marry a doctor.
And she said, don't marry a doctor, be a doctor.
I know, that was good.
I'm sure at least two years later she'd say, oh, marry a doctor, for a lot of sad reasons.
Oh, that was why, when you were talking about your brother and somebody had said in the family, oh, I wish somebody had married a doctor.
But, you know, like everyone, she had a lot of contradictory things to say.
I think she mostly wanted me to marry somebody wealthy to take care of me.
That's kind of what you did.
And that's common for women, you know.
Well, mothers back then, we're in the same generation, so they wanted us to be well taken care of.
This was probably before women could even have credit cards.
Oh, I have so many sad stories about that.