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British Vogue interviewed Madeleine Albright and Wellesley College president Kim Bottomly on the topic of women in politics. Here’s an excerpt:

There are so many bright, ambitious women in the world, but few seem to be choosing political careers - why do you think that is?

ALBRIGHT: I think that generally there’s a question about how women balance their lives. But I have to say that I don’t think we’re victims of anything. It’s a question of what women choose to do and how women respect each other’s choices. It’s not simple to be a woman. I think it’s harder, frankly, to be a woman than a man, in many different ways. Some of it’s due to biology, in terms of demands and our own sense of guilt about are we in the right place doing the right thing. What I think is that women have to feel that we can do anything we want to do.