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I think maybe at any given time for us there were one or two other women in the whole architecture school, or certainly in our year. The work [kept us motivated], by then we knew we could do it! And it was just a question of the energy that you give to your work. I don't even remember thinking at that point, I don't think I ever had a thought "Why aren't there women teachers?" It didn't even occur to me, really. I shouldn't say there were absolutely none, Denise Scott Brown was just starting to teach, she was a recent graduate student herself when I was at Penn, and she was giving some courses in city planning, which I didn't actually take, she was not doing studio. She was there, I mean she was actually, there was a person there. But in our whole schooling none of us ever saw any women faculty in studio design or structures or mechanical, except art history.
I mean, it may be significant in retrospect that Jane had a period in high school when she was in an all-women's school and that my college was that way too, it kind of created a mindset that of course you do this, every, we're all here doing everything, and all things are possible.
