You are the creator of your destiny. In whatever business you’re in, there is always so much coming at you that you can stay insanely busy just responding. Don’t do that. Always think about what is your agenda, what do you want to make happen, what do you want the future to look like. This is not so easy.
I think this is a powerful idea. I was a homemaker for a lot of years. I think more than men typically are, women get socialized to respond to other people rather than setting their own agenda in this way, and it consigns us to servile roles, even if we are very talented.
She was apparently 65:
https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2016/01/05/kathryn-gould-v...
https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/26/r-i-p-kathyrn-gould-vc-pio...
To my surprise, I can find no Wikipedia article about her.