Melinda French Gates

Almost forgetting who I was in my core and my essence.

But as I would see these different groups, I could remember not that, not that, not that.

And so maybe to your point, I was able to chisel my way back to who I am in my essence.

And it was always there and I always held on to it.

I didn't let go of it, but I had to see other things to go, not that.

Yeah.

My freshman advisor, who was also the college counselor for our all-girls school, I won't say her name, when I went in to start talking to her about colleges and where I wanted to go and what my dreams were, and she said,

oh, no, no, no, no.

Those aren't for you.

You know, when I said things like Notre Dame and Stanford or Duke, oh, no.

I mean, maybe we should consider, you know, maybe like a local community college or maybe we should think about Texas Tech.

And again, talk about that oppositional.

So I can also rise up.

Sometimes I have to have something to work against.

And I left

And I was so angry.

I was like, she sees me like that?

Who is she to see me like that?

Are you kidding?

I'm going to show her.