My Mom has zero clue what Twitter is, but I'll tell you a little about her... After her 1st marriage, she was in her 30s... She went back home to Monticello, NY... and was unsure of her future... It would have been easy to lie down & give up...

She decided to go back to school... Medical school, in particular... Keep in mind this was in the 1970s... Women weren't exactly a common sight at medical school... Especially women in their 30s... I asked her what motivated her to do it...

She gave me one answer... and later call me back... "Gotta be honest,.. Spite. I wanted to prove to them that I could do it..." When she was interviewing, she ran into a school administrator who wasn't exactly "forward" looking...

He asked her "do you think it's fair that you'll take the spot of someone else, when you're likely to get married, have kids, and stop practicing medicine?" Without missing a beat, my Mom "I don't believe you're allowed to ask me that, and this interview is over."

It's been over 40 years since started medical school... and Mi Madre is still practicing medicine... And in a crazy turn, I've run into a few colleagues who were either a. patients or b. parent of a patient. All had glowing things to say...

If I f up in this world (and I have on more than one occasion), it ain't cause I was raised poorly. It's cause I f-ed up.