The system really is sometimes rigged against these workers, and they know it.
I think I'm sounding a lot more calm than I really am and sometimes I do get upset and angry, but sometimes it's quite fun – I hop in a taxi and the driver says, 'What do you do?' and I say, I'm a space scientist, and it's always, 'you what?'" Why are there still so few women in science and engineering (just 13% of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics sector are women)?
I think I'm sounding a lot more calm than I really am and sometimes I do get upset and angry, but sometimes it's quite fun – I hop in a taxi and the driver says: 'What do you do?' And I say: 'I'm a space scientist.' And it's always: 'You what?'" Interview by Stephen Moss (17 February) Smith tells me no explanation was ever offered.
I was bracing for a backlash against me, I really was, as can sometimes happen with whistle-blowers.
"I suppose so... but I think it's sometimes really hard to tell whether people really don't know or don't want to know.… I tend to think, rather, that more often they repress it than that they don't hear.
I was sometimes really angry at the various articles in the press telling the world about how Iraqis feel and what they were doing when they were living in an isolated world.
This is a really basic one, but I'm sometimes surprised by the answers that different writers have for it.
Joking aside (am I really joking?) I recognize that it's sometimes hard to find just the right gift to match with the personality.
When I really get going, it is sometimes for an hour and a half.
"I know it's not his fault and that's the way he is, and so I shouldn't really be embarrassed, but sometimes I am," she said.
