Like so many women, Brzezinski thought if she worked hard, she would eventually be rewarded.
And she worked hard, and she was good at what she did, but like so many women she hit that glass ceiling, and watched men no more qualified than she was -- men she had actually trained -- be promoted up that ladder ahead of her.
She labored hard all day, and she eschewed any form of office socializing--until her manager sat her down and asked if she wanted to have a career at the company.
She was breathing so hard she was afraid the stars could hear her.
"One time, the book was about a train that wasn't sure she could get over the mountain, but she knew if she tried real hard, she could do it, " Ms. Walsh said.
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She battled hard to overcome bias and move up, accepting every promotion she was offered.
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Mrs Handford said she found it hard to accept she would not see her son again.
And she told me about how hard she works and about all the community service she does with her brother.
"She knows if she thinks too hard about what she's doing, what she's becoming, then it is going to incapacitate her, " Pratchett said.
She said that in a way, she's found the "healing" -- at least in a spiritual sense -- that she prayed so hard for after she first tested positive.
She was hard of hearing in one ear, no doubt deafened by her own screaming.
In fact, rumors have it that she lobbied hard to get him the role.
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She fought hard, according to her account, for something different and better to help damaged borrowers.
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She played hard-to-get, or the One That Got Away, nudging the line before drifting down towards the dark serene.
And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed.
She worked hard all her life, sewing, gardening, and taking care of the home, until her body literally wore out.
She had something to sell, her experience as a geisha and of Japanese culture, and she worked hard to market it.
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Nevertheless, she got a job at a local bank, and she was smart and tough and disciplined, and she worked hard.
She made hard work of dispatching Benesova in little under one-and-a-half hours.
While membrane technology had been around for a long time, she worked hard on developing new and better uses for these filters.
She worked hard to take the setbacks and side effects in stride.
On April 13, 2004, she established hard-line telephone service at the apartment.
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And I know that the reason she got to introduce me was because she worked hard and won an essay competition to do it.
Severely dyslexic, she worked hard to get through school and the SATs, but gained acceptance to Tufts after writing a passionate essay that explained her disorder.
It wasn't until 1983's "She Works Hard for the Money, " which became a ubiquitous video as well as a big radio hit, that Summer's fame approached its late '70s zenith.
She campaigned hard in the 1980s to add a building dedicated to dance to the Music Centre's cluster of auditoriums in central Los Angeles, but could not raise the money.
We all know she's brash, she's hard-working, she's irrepressible.
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