Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.
French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.
Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.
When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.
The real reason French women don’t get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.
I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.