When I was promoted to chief reporter, my then publishing director told me at lunch: You could really have a great career - but you mustn't have children. When a woman becomes a mother, she becomes stupid. Children are the worst thing that can happen to a woman. Later, at 36 and pregnant with my son, the editor-in-chief said after the announcement: Aha! So now you're going to be a hippo and we can't use you any more.

I graduated in astrophysics. I received a prize for excellence for my PhD: After the award, a member of the jury came up to me and said: Well done, you did great! You really did! A real "Miss Meteo"!

" As medical students, we are faced with a choice. Even before we start our studies, people around us keep asking: Are you sure? Are you sure this is what you want to do? You know, studying medicine takes a loooong time! The studies are long, the work schedules impossible.... Are you sure this is what you want to do? With medicine, you have no time for children! You're giving up on having a family! Are you sure you, girl, you want to study medecine???

"When I made my choice to orient me to the medecal studies, I was 18 years old. I was far from the family projections. And at that time, I was also far from imagining that this question: Baby? or Not baby?, would punctuate my entire professional career. This question is not addressed as often and with as much importance to other professions with out-of-office hours. It seems that what is bothering people is not so much the management of my private life and my work-life balance.