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Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy

29 Mar 2025 — 4 min read
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The Lowest of Low Rent Margaret Atwoods

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I'm no Margaret Atwood. (That is clear.) But I've bought two houses in California, beat the 98% gender tax of raising venture capital, and am putting two kids through eye-wateringly expensive private schools as a writer by doing what I learned from Margaret.

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And then she said the thing about the goddesses. And my world stopped. "These women have all built their careers using the traits of the five main Hindu goddesses...."

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