Trust actress-producer Priyanka Chopra to be good at compartmentalising. A week after the actress took a short trip to New Jersey with boyfriend Nick Jonas, she returned to the New York City to attend the Forbes' Women Summit 2018.
Dressed in a sharp silver high neck dress, Chopra said that women should not let marriages define them. With her relationship status being in the news recently, Chopra said, "Because I’m in my 30s, which is obviously over the hill, my mother said to me, 'You’ll get married the day you find someone who appreciates how hard you worked to get where you are'." But the actress added that she will remain in control of her life. "No one is the decision maker in my life," she stated in no unclear terms.
Chopra credited her parents for a more holistic upbringing. Repeating her father's advice, she said, "Why would you ever want to fit into a glass slipper that someone has made for you?” The actress added that it was her 'over-achieving' and progressive parents who pushed her to 'break the glass ceiling'.
Following dreams with courage and conviction was a subject both the female panelists agreed on. While Nooyi stated, "No one gave me dressing instructions. I worried about how I was perceived. I was the only woman in the room and I already looked different." Chopra signed off saying, "We [women] are always told what we need to do. We should be able to decide what we want to do. That to me is feminism."
The actress has already signed on for a book deal with Penguin Random House India, and will also be seen in Ali Abbas Zafar's Bharat, opposite Salman Khan.