From the Back Row to the Corner Office: How One Woman Turned Her Deepest Wound Into Her Greatest Strength

she understood exactly where she stood in the social order of that building.

Humiliation of that kind does not fade with time the way people say it does.

It hardens.

It presses itself into the way you carry your shoulders and the way you walk into unfamiliar rooms and the way you decide, very early, what kind of life you are going to build for yourself.continue reading …