Ann Bancroft

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.