Caroline Michel

I love being a woman. I want to come back as a woman; I would hate to come back as a man. I think there are natural attributes you can use as a woman and there is nothing wrong with using them.

Listen to the language that people use to describe women. Men are allowed to get away with being angry, women are called hysterical. Men are allowed to get away with being rude, women are called emotional. Until that language changes, there will always be that battle.

It goes right back to the basics – as women get up in the morning, we look at ourselves and think, eurrghhh! There’s that constant feeling of looking at the day in front of you and having to pull yourself together while you’re also getting the kids organized in their lives, answering ten emails that you should have done the night before and trying to put your mascara on while telling your seventeen year old son, “No, you can’t go off to that festival with X…” We begin from four steps back.

A little charm goes a long way… I believe in the people I work with and I trust them. If you work with people you admire and they know that you believe in them, I think you can do anything.

What I love most about reaching the age that I am, is how strong one’s friendships become. You have all lived your lives and you don’t have to posture and there’s nothing you can’t confess to. There’s nothing you can’t laugh about and you realize how fallible we all are.