I'm saying that my success cannot be solely attributed to my hard work. If you include the genetic lottery (including not just to whom, but where and when I was born) under luck, then I'm sure that my actions have been less important than my luck. If I'd been born 100 years earlier, or in the 3rd world, odds are I'd have been lucky to learn to get much of an education, let alone college and grad school. Even one generation earlier, had I gotten pregnant in grad school as I did, I might have been out on my butt. So many people and so many things contributed to my opportunity to do the thing I love.

From your response, I infer that you really believe that luck had more influence on your success than your own work did. Am I wrong?