Lucile Aurore Dupin

"Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it."

 

Lucile Aurore Dupin

French novelist and memoirist, pseudonym George Sand

Harriet Rubin

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power.
Power is about what you can control.
Freedom is about what you can unleash.” 

Harriet Rubin

author

Virginia Woolf

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

 

 Virginia Woolf   author

         

Shakti Gawain

“Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.”

Shakti Gawain Pioneering Author & Teacher in the field of Personal Growth

Anne Lamott

“Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.”



Anne Lamott

author, political activist, public speaker and writing teacher

Bonnie St. John

“I don’t hide my leg; I show it off. Looking ‘normal’ is overrated.”

Bonnie St. John
inspirational speaker, writer,
executive coach

Geneen Roth

"We don’t want to eat hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to be hot fudge sundaes."

Geneen Roth

Author, Women Food & God

Amy Bloom

“All intimacy is rare—that's what makes it precious.”

Amy Bloom

Author, nominee for the National Book Award
and the National Book Critics Circle Award

Brenda Ueland

"When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life."

Brenda Ueland
First woman reporter the
Minneapolis Tribune
Author "If You Want To Write:
A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit"

Nikki Giovanni

"We love because it’s the only true adventure."
--Nikki Giovanni

Author of 30 books &
Grammy-nominated poet,
Distinguished Professor of
English at Virginia Tech

Mary Manin Morrissey

"When we talk less, we listen more. Through authentically listening, we can send the message: What matters to you matters to me."

—Mary Manin Morrissey
Speaker, best-selling author
and consultant

Week 48: Anne Lamott

“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.”
—Anne Lamott

Author of novels and works of non-fiction,
acclaimed public speaker and writing teacher often referred to as the
“People’s Author”

Week 45: Alice Walker

“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’ names.”

—Alice Walker

American author most known for
The Color Purple, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction