By Lydia Kiesling — 2019
Time follows no standard when you become a parent.
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First Lady Michelle Obama and Charlize Theron offer a few wise words to teenage girls at a Glamour Magazine event.
With less than 40 days to go before the 2012 presidential election, poet and activist Alice Walker reads her new poem, "Democratic Womanism." "You ask me why I smile when you tell me you intend in the coming national elections to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils," reads Walker.
Omega cofounder Elizabeth Lesser opens the 2019 Women & Power Conference with a tribute to Toni Morrison and an exploration of one of her favorite Morrison quotes, "As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
In this video with NEXT for Women, Lesser states that the desire to be nice to everyone is still locked into the DNA of women. You can be kind and fierce, but not nice and fierce, and that it is almost always impossible to advance in one's career if they attempt this.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about "The power of Women" after receiving Dayawati Modi Award for Art, Culture and Education at Sri Sathya Sai International Center in New Delhi, India, on December 2nd, 2011.
In this revelatory book, imam Sherin Khankan addresses urgent contemporary issues such as modern women in Islam, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, and fundamentalism, and she describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist.
With A Woman’s Worth, Marianne Williamson turns her charismatic voice—and the same empowering, spiritually enlightening wisdom that energized her landmark work, A Return to Love—to exploring the crucial role of women in the world today.
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Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to be a woman in today’s world are two very different things—and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them.
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Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live.
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Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons offers inspiration for anyone who aspires to grow into their own unique form of leadership with resilience and joy.