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Knoll said, \"I've been thinking for a long time about the type of success that women are allowed to have and it still feels like there's still a cap on it.\"

Knoll refers to a Forbes' annual tally in her piece, stressing that \"less than 12 percent of the world’s billionaires are women\" and most of them inherited their money.

\"I want to write books, but I really want to sell books,\" she wrote in the NYT. \"I want advances that make my husband gasp and fat royalty checks twice a year.\"

I didn’t hear enough women say this when I was growing up so I’m saying it now. https://t.co/PmLjipEFrG

— Jessica Knoll (@JessMKnoll) April 28, 2018

Knoll said she knows that money cannot buy happiness, but having stability and freedom helps.

\"It goes back to just getting comfortable with expressing ourselves, getting comfortable with stating our goals and making the public more comfortable with hearing them,\" she explained.

Her new book, \"The Favorite Sister,\" goes on sale later this month.

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