From the archives: The life of Eloa Bellot, who wrote a book about her experiences as a female journalist.
She is the first female journalist to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Her work has won numerous awards and been translated into English and Spanish.
This is a condensed version of a longer piece.
A transcript of this transcript is below.
The title is from a transcript of an interview Eloa published with NPR’s Terry Gross on The Fresh Air.
Eloa’s book, A Woman in Search of a Man, was published in 2011.
In it, she recounted her experiences with harassment and sexism in the Canadian media, and how her work helped her in her career.
In her book, Eloa describes being harassed on a regular basis by two men who harassed her and other female journalists, including in the print media.
One of the men she described was her boss, a newspaper publisher who would call her into his office and say he needed to see a psychiatrist.
The other was a radio journalist.
In a later interview with NPR, she described how she met this man: He was in his early thirties.
He had a good job.
I didn’t know him well.
I’d only known him a couple of years, maybe three.
But I think it was my first time meeting someone who was, in my opinion, an authority figure.
It made me feel a little uncomfortable.
He said, “Well, I think you’re good enough for the job.
Let’s do this.”
And so I was.
So I thought, I’m going to give him a chance.
And I said, what kind of a job is that?
And he said, well, if you do it well, he can help you a lot.
And then, after a while, I realized I was going to have to talk to the guy.
And so, in the end, I went on a couple more dates with him.
And at one point, he told me he was going on a business trip with his wife.
I said that was not going to happen.
And he’s like, “Oh, that’s OK, we’ll get there in the morning.”
And then he goes out to dinner and he comes back.
And this is after the first date, which was kind of crazy.
He goes back to the office and there’s a big group of men there, and he’s talking about how wonderful I am.
And the next day, the women, the male colleagues, are saying, what are you doing?
And I was like, what the hell?
He’s like: “Well I’m trying to figure out what I’m doing, I’ll just go home.”
And I’m like, yeah, well I’ll go home.
And after dinner, I leave.
And in my book, I talk about the following day, he comes into my room and he is talking about what a great person I am and that he wants to marry me.
And one of the first things he said was, well you know, if I do marry you, I want to make you a big, beautiful, rich woman, because I know you can do anything you want.
And my first thought was, oh my god, this guy is not interested in marriage.
And a few days later, he said to me, well don’t worry, I know the world is full of rich women.
And that, to me at that point, made me very angry.
I think what happened to me was that I was in the process of being a writer, a journalist, at the time, and I was feeling a lot of insecurity, a lot insecurities.
I was really thinking, I’ve got to be really good at this.
And it just made me think, well if I don’t do anything well, then I’ll get in trouble, and then, you know what?
He did not have any of my qualities.
I don, and what he didn’t have was my kind of intelligence, my good sense of humor, my ability to listen to people.
I mean, I would say I was a very smart person, but I was not very funny.
And if I had the slightest bit of intelligence I was easily intimidated by men.
So that’s what made me so angry.
And even though I was trying to think of how to fix it, I just kept thinking about how it was the same with women.
You know, it’s a very strange thing that a woman can be a writer or a journalist or a woman in politics or a man can be in politics.
I really don’t understand that.
And of course, I had this idea that I should just keep my head down and do whatever it is that I am supposed to do.
But then I started reading this book.
And you know when I started it, the first thing I said to myself was