You are a role model for many women and their daughters. Who, aside from your parents and the people in your private life, would you cite as a role model?
SECRETARY RICE: Oh, there are lots of them for me. It's funny, I think I have had different role models during different parts of my life -- since you always wish that you could have been the one thing that you weren't.
I loved athletics, and I was a pretty good athlete, but I would love to have been a great athlete. Althea Gibson and Billie Jean King, who both broke through barriers, to me are just extraordinary. They had to break through not just the attitude of, "Should women be doing that?" but they did so in areas where for a long time there just weren't that many opportunities.
But I would just say one thing to people who are looking for role models: They don't have to look like you; you can find role models in all kinds of people.
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