Daily Inspiration Quote by Caprice Bourret

Luck is the socially acceptable way to talk about ambition when you’re a woman whose job is to be looked at. “My whole career - I have been really lucky” reads like gratitude, but it’s also a defensive crouch: a preemptive softening of any claim to agency in an industry that punishes women for seeming calculating and punishes them again for seeming naive.

Caprice Bourret’s choice of “whole career” stretches the statement across decades, not a single break or viral moment. That scale matters. Modeling and celebrity-adjacent work are often treated as accidental fame - a lightning strike, a fluke, a pretty face in the right hallway. By framing longevity as “lucky,” she sidesteps the messy reality: the relentless maintenance, the networking, the reinvention, the risk of becoming yesterday’s headline. Luck becomes a polite umbrella term for discipline without sounding self-congratulatory.

There’s also an implicit negotiation with the public’s resentment. When you occupy a glamorous lane, any talk of hard work can sound like a humblebrag. “Lucky” disarms that hostility. It signals: I know this isn’t coal mining; I’m not asking for sainthood. At the same time, it quietly calls out the volatility of the business - the fact that talent and effort don’t guarantee outcomes when youth, beauty standards, tabloid cycles, and gatekeepers can rewrite your value overnight.

The dash does work, too: a pause that feels like someone choosing the safest word in the room, and choosing it on purpose.