Week 18: Donna Michael

“Light works best when it shines on where we are going, not where we have been. That's the place for the shadows, and true clarity comes from realizing that we cannot know the brilliance of the light without the depth of darkness.”


--Donna Michael
Internationally-known speaker, visionary leader, minister, classically-trained musician, songwriter & Radical Forgiveness coach

Hear Donna's amazing song and view her inspiring video "A Light In This World."

Week 17: Francine Ward

“From the moment I decided to become a lawyer, I was told I would never meet the requirements—that I’d never make it. They said my criminal record would get in the way. They said people like me--women who’d come from where I came from didn’t stand a chance. That women like me didn’t become lawyers, we paid lawyers!...But they were wrong.”

--Francine Ward
Self-esteem coach, inspiring speaker, author, lawyer

Week 16: Ellen DeGeneres

“I’m a godmother, that’s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that’s cute, I taught her that."


--Ellen DeGeneres
Emmy-Award winning
comedienne, TV host, actress & author...

Quote from My Point And I Do Have One

Week 15: Maria Campbell

“I had no money...I decided to go back out in the street and work...But I just couldn’t ...I'd be back on drugs again . . . I started writing a letter [to myself] because I had to have somebody to talk to, and there was nobody ... that was how I wrote Halfbreed."

--Maria Campbell
Métis author, playwright, broadcaster, filmmaker, and Elder

Halfbreed, still taught today in schools across Canada, has inspired generations of indigenous women and men.

Week 14: Tallulah Bankhead

“It’s the good girls who keep diaries;

the bad girls never have the time.”


—Tallulah Bankhead
Actress and bon vivant

Week 13: Barbara Kingsolver

“One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.”

—Barbara Kingsolver
Best-selling author who
in 2000 received the
National Humanities
Medal, the highest honor
awarded in the US for
service through the arts.

Week 12: Rosa Parks

In honor of National Women's History Month:

“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”

—Rosa Parks
Mother of the
Modern-Day Civil
Rights Movement,
named one of the 20
most influential and
iconic figures of the
20th century