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| How Samantha Bee and Cecile Richards Overcome Self-Doubt | How Samantha Bee and Cecile Richards Overcome Self-Doubt |
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| Samantha Bee, the first woman to host a late-night satirical show, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” week after week cuttingly and eloquently attacks politicians and policies. But she isn’t what she appears. | Samantha Bee, the first woman to host a late-night satirical show, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” week after week cuttingly and eloquently attacks politicians and policies. But she isn’t what she appears. |
| The assured manner? The assertive self-confidence? It’s not quite an act, but it’s something she has to put on, like the blazers she wears. | The assured manner? The assertive self-confidence? It’s not quite an act, but it’s something she has to put on, like the blazers she wears. |
| “I think that you become a comedian because all you feel is self-doubt,” Ms. Bee said last week at the New Rules Summit hosted by The New York Times. | “I think that you become a comedian because all you feel is self-doubt,” Ms. Bee said last week at the New Rules Summit hosted by The New York Times. |
| She contrasted herself with her husband, Jason Jones; they worked together for years on “The Daily Show” and more recently created the television comedy “The Detour.” | She contrasted herself with her husband, Jason Jones; they worked together for years on “The Daily Show” and more recently created the television comedy “The Detour.” |
| “He never seems to waver in his belief about something,” she said. “When he feels a certain way creatively, he drives toward that goal with such strength and such belief in his idea. And when I was making a show there was so much self-doubt.” | “He never seems to waver in his belief about something,” she said. “When he feels a certain way creatively, he drives toward that goal with such strength and such belief in his idea. And when I was making a show there was so much self-doubt.” |
| So, Ms. Bee said she sat her husband down one day and asked him “to teach me how to be a man.” How, she asked, can he believe wholeheartedly in his own ideas, even when they’re bad, although she used a saltier adjective. | So, Ms. Bee said she sat her husband down one day and asked him “to teach me how to be a man.” How, she asked, can he believe wholeheartedly in his own ideas, even when they’re bad, although she used a saltier adjective. |
| “And he was, like, ‘Oh sure. You just don’t listen to anybody. You just do the thing, and you block out everybody else.’ And I was like, O.K., I’m going to do that. | “And he was, like, ‘Oh sure. You just don’t listen to anybody. You just do the thing, and you block out everybody else.’ And I was like, O.K., I’m going to do that. |
| “And so I took a shower, and I was like, O.K., was washing my hair and kind of crying. And then I was like, ‘I’m just going to be a man. I’m going to block out everything.’ And then I did that. And I still do that.” | “And so I took a shower, and I was like, O.K., was washing my hair and kind of crying. And then I was like, ‘I’m just going to be a man. I’m going to block out everything.’ And then I did that. And I still do that.” |
| She added that it was the psychological equivalent of putting on a blazer, “which really is armor.” | She added that it was the psychological equivalent of putting on a blazer, “which really is armor.” |
| Cecile Richards, a former president of Planned Parenthood, who shared the stage with Ms. Bee, said she almost didn’t go to her job interview with Planned Parenthood — a position she held for a decade until stepping down this year — because “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t do that job.’ | Cecile Richards, a former president of Planned Parenthood, who shared the stage with Ms. Bee, said she almost didn’t go to her job interview with Planned Parenthood — a position she held for a decade until stepping down this year — because “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t do that job.’ |
| “And I remember stopping in a coffee shop in a dead panic and doing what any grown woman would do, which is call my mother. And I said, ‘I don’t know what to do.’ And she’s, ‘Cecile, get over yourself.’” Her mother, Ann Richards, was the former governor of Texas. | “And I remember stopping in a coffee shop in a dead panic and doing what any grown woman would do, which is call my mother. And I said, ‘I don’t know what to do.’ And she’s, ‘Cecile, get over yourself.’” Her mother, Ann Richards, was the former governor of Texas. |
| Turning from the personal to the political, Ms. Bee and Ms. Richards were firm about the single most important thing every woman can do to create change. | Turning from the personal to the political, Ms. Bee and Ms. Richards were firm about the single most important thing every woman can do to create change. |
| Knitting your pussy hat is great, marching, writing irate postcards to Paul Ryan is great, Ms. Richards said. “But voting is the whole thing.” | Knitting your pussy hat is great, marching, writing irate postcards to Paul Ryan is great, Ms. Richards said. “But voting is the whole thing.” |
| Ms. Bee agreed. “You must vote. You must vote,” she said. “We learned that within our viewing audience, I think only 53 percent is registered to vote. And all I do is hector people about voting on my show.” | Ms. Bee agreed. “You must vote. You must vote,” she said. “We learned that within our viewing audience, I think only 53 percent is registered to vote. And all I do is hector people about voting on my show.” |
| But voting is not enough, Ms. Richards said. Women’s new motto has to be “start before you’re ready. Because if you wait until everything is lined up — your kids are the right age, or you’ve got the right degrees, or you have the right clothes — then life is going to pass you by.” | But voting is not enough, Ms. Richards said. Women’s new motto has to be “start before you’re ready. Because if you wait until everything is lined up — your kids are the right age, or you’ve got the right degrees, or you have the right clothes — then life is going to pass you by.” |
| More stories from The New Rules Summit Special Report. |