It is so interesting to me that society is all worked up about women staying at home or going to work or doing a little bit of both. I guess I don’t really understand why it matters what society thinks—women should do what’s best for their families. I know that if I get married and have children someday I personally plan to stay at home with my kids. But it’s not a rigid formula that needs to apply to every single woman in the United States. That’s just something I value more than money. My mom stayed home to raise my brothers and me until we went to elementary school. We didn’t have the nicest clothes or the newest toys, but I was never aware of it. And I never considered my mom to be any less successful than my dad, or vice versa. I still think they are the kind of successful I hope to one day be, but the definition of success is completely subjective. Just in our class there are probably twenty different ideas of the word success. So if we all judge it differently, why should a person measure their success on anyone else’s scale? Why do we need to compare levels of success? I don’t think we need to—in fact, I think it’s impossible. If a person is successful in his or her own eyes, then that should be enough.