I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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