Certainly her ability to follow through on imagination and dreams set her apart from most bipeds, but so did her rabid need to answer the questions that arose in her monumental curiosity about the world. She is as interested in bugs and dogs as she is in pearls, peasants, and why the human species can't seem to control itself. To her, no task is insurmountable. Government bureaucracy is a thing to untangle and fix. Overpopulation is a matter of education and scads of birth control.
Wars are as stoppable as the manufacturing of weapons.
And dinosaurs are just waiting in the earth to be found. There are just such incredible things around us all the time. We're not an important species, although we think we are. The thing that bothers me is that over the years we've not progressed at all. What does not matter to Sue are the very things that define most people.