Well put! As always with surrounding yourself with brilliance, talent, drive and passion, you will find that your life after that will not be easier but it will definitely become more fun, more challenging and you'll grow faster (not physically :P)

My advice? Surround yourself with brilliance, talent, drive and passion in all aspects of your life.

Career people in some of the most demanding careers are B players. I'm talking about investment bankers and white-shoe "biglaw" attorneys. These are people who are "ambitious" in the sense of having strong (and indiscriminate, the image of a garbage disposal coming to mind) work ethics, but the content of whose ambitions are base and regrettable.

I agree, though, that a hard-working startup entrepreneur (regardless of gender) is a desirable mate. The same is true of a successful academic, doctor, writer, artist or teacher.

When people use "career women" pejoratively, they're usually talking about corporate and banker girls, the alpha chicks who are "in it to win it" but haven't reflected for a second on whether the prize holds any value whatsoever, much less whether or not it justifies the Pyrrhic nature of any victory attained.