Quote:
"There were [...] sparks at the CBC over sending a woman. I had to compile lists of all the women who were in Vietnam and all the women who had covered wars to prove that it could be done and that I could do it."
-- Beryl Fox

Source:
Rosenthal, Alan. "The Mills of the Gods: Vietnam." Interview with Beryl Fox. In The Documentary Conscience: A Casebook in Film Making. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. (p. 229)