But for a woman to climb up the ladder, she first has to master the masculine art of climbing... and lose much of her feminine mind along the way, replacing it with climber's skills.There is more than one way to skin a cat:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/1966524/It-helps-to-be-pretty-in-politics,-says-Italian-MP.html
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
