You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally but they must never fail.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Every night I go over what I did in the day in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

All of my friends are animal people. To me cats are people too. Animals are people too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently especially in developing countries.

I'm being treated like a sex object cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it said Time soothingly.

My mother a teacher encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living and my father a Mississippi physician did two things. First he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

For example the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

There was a perception of me and I earned it because I was really intense really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor but it's not easy.

For many centuries suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.