Quotes
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Laura Miles : You know this firefighting thing wasn't a lark. I didn't just come up with this one day. I saw a news show when I was, like, seven years old about a female firefighter, and I was like, "That's it. That's what I wanna do." And I went and I told my father, and he pretty much laughed in my face. He was, like, "You can't do that, sweetheart. You're a girl." Then he got a ton of mileage out of it. He told it at every family dinner party for years. Then when I started telling my boyfriends, it was, "You can't do that, baby. You're a girl." By the time I got to the academy, it was every guy saying, "You don't belong here, bitch. You're a girl." But I had really thick skin by then, you know? And, uh, I learned how to cry when nobody was looking, and I did a ton of sit-ups. I thought I was gonna break my back. But I became a firefighter. And then when I actually get assigned to a regular house and start doing the job, what would be my next course of action? I'm gonna start banging a guy in my crew. And then I'm gonna fall in love with a guy in my crew. You know, 'cause he's hot and sweet, and I think on some level I thought he needed me... and because I'm a girl. I had to come all this way to learn that my father was right? I'm just a girl, you know? I don't have anybody to blame but myself.
