Simply Another Species

One of my late great aunts would frequenty declare, "you just can't understand people" as she led her remarkable life that included being a secretary to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and to Edward R. Murrow and later a decorator for the Hilton family and a female "engineeer" at Bechtel despite the fact that she never studied engineering (The company apparently did not have a designation for "decorator"), and being an accomplished artist in her own right. I just wonder what Aunt Bertie thought she was if not a person.