A Place in the World

World Trade Center

"I had never wanted to belong to anything more than to that shimmering landscape of office towers lit up against the dark New York sky. Each individual glittering box of light —like like gems strung along a necklace— seemed to me to be a tiny oblong window onto success, acceptance, respect, that is to say, a place in the world."

Helen Wan, The Partner Track

Bigger, Better, Faster, More

"I had never seen any city like it, and I had never felt so small, but small in such a wonderful way. Small in a way that didn't feel bad, or lonely. Everything felt vital and important here. Bigger, better, faster, more. As if everyone were essential and functioning in a great big machine with lots of moving parts, and it really mattered that they were all here and going about their business exactly as they were doing. That was the moment I vowed that I'd move here one day, the moment New York wooed me."
Helen Wan, The Partner Track