Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!
To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.