The life lesson: a woman can lose her personal identity in a romantic relationship – and not realize it until it’s too late! The successful woman: George Eliot, a prolific writer who lived in the 1880’s. Her real name was Mary Anne Evans (she uses a male pen name so her work would be taken [...]
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The life lesson: sometimes you have to give up on your goals – for your own good. The successful woman: Anna Quindlen, a Pulitzer-prize winning author. “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,” says Quindlen, “is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of being yourself.” Sometimes you have to give up for your own [...] The life lesson: to be fully yourself – authentic and real – you have to let go of other people’s expectations. The successful woman: Maria Shriver, journalist and author of Just Who Will You Be? “As long as I was trying to anticipate what people wanted from me, as long as I was trying to fulfill other people’s expectations, [...] The life lesson: keeping your self-identity means owning your unique point of view! The successful woman: Sarah Ban Breathnach. “One of the most important milestones we’ll hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our own unique point of view and realize how priceless it is,” writes Ban Breathnach in Simple Abundance: A Daybook of [...] The life lesson: sometimes your body doesn’t cooperate – or it even betrays you. The successful woman: Sarah Jessica Parker, who not only accepts her infertility…she talks about it. “It would have been odd to have made this choice if I was able to have had successful pregnancies since my son’s birth,” said Parker in an [...] |
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