More Words of Wisdom from an Obit

New York Times’ obits are full of great stories and lessons to learn. Here are the final four paragraphs one published last week of Producer, Edie Landau, who the Times dubbed “ahead of her time”

“Photographs from her days as a film producer reveal that Ms. Landau was often the only woman in a room full of men wearing suits.

She hit back at what she plainly called “discrimination of women” in 1958, when she filed a formal complaint against United Airlines for not permitting her to board a Chicago-to-New York “executive flight” — a cocktail-and-steak journey designed for men only. Ms. Landau — who later earned a law degree from the University of West Los Angeles just for fun — told the airline that she was an executive, too.

The incident turned out to be a harbinger of repeated protests that finally led to scrapping the flights in 1970.

After retiring, Ms. Landau wrote poetry. One concise work was titled “That Was Then, This Is Now”: “Please remember that I was once a major executive, not just a house wife,/So please trust me now to be C.E.O. … of my own life.”