Inspirational Quotations for Women

What do Cher and Suze Orman have in common? Suze is outstanding in the financial world; she’s a public speaker, television personality, radio personality, businesswoman and author of eight New York Times bestsellers.

Cher is outstanding in the glitzy world of show business. She’s currently performing in Vegas for a couple of years – at 61 years old – and she loves what she does. You’ll never believe what she said on the Oprah Winfrey show yesterday - and it directly relates to Suze Orman. Cher said, “I’m a Read the rest of this entry »

Do you keep making the same mistakes over and over? I do. Most of us do, in fact.

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Have you figured out why you’re making the same mistakes? I have. It stems from being stingy. Growing up, we relied on “the kindness of strangers” to survive – but we weren’t just financially poor. We were emotionally, spiritually, and socially poor, too. 

So I became tightfisted, and not just with money. I tend to hoard my time, attention, and approval because I’m afraid I won’t have enough left over for me. Fear, I think, is the basis for most of our failures, wrong choices, and repeated mistakes….which is where Oprah’s inspirational quotation about failure (and success!) comes in.

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These fun little guys & gals are “GOMO” buddies - encouraging us to “Get Over It, Move On.”

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How do they relate to inspirational women? Funny you should ask…

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I’m reading Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood, which is a collection of essays from writers and journalists (mostly) about being a mom and still working. It’s edited by Cori Howard and published by Key Porter Books (who have nicely rejected about 4 of my book proposals).

Chantal Kreviazuk wrote a great piece called “Slow Surrender” about being a working mom. Think artists and celebrities have it easy? Think again. Read the rest of this entry »

Maria Shriver was on a recent Oprah Winfrey show, discussing her new book called Just Who Will You Be? This inspiration for strong women isn’t about the Oprah show or Shriver’s book. It’s from a speech Shriver made at California’s annual Women’s Conference in October 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been given a fabulous opportunity to write an article about an idea I’ve been drooling over for months! The magazine brilliant enough to pick up the article is called Psychologies, based in London, England. The article is about “giving up for your own good” – which means looking at your goals, determining if they’re achievable and healthy, and either re-evaluating them or giving them up entirely. It’s about learning how to quit or let go of your goals without feeling like a complete failure.x 

It’s about seeing success and opportunity in quitting.

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Barbara Sher has written several motivational books, and they’re worth reading and re-reading every year or so. Sher offers practical ways to accomplish your goals and encouragement to find and be yourself – which isn’t easy.

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Julia Cameron wrote this funky little book called How to Avoid Making Art (or Anything Else You Enjoy). It’s a quick read, with drawings that illustrate her point that there are millions of things we could be doing instead of chasing our dreams. 

This is tongue-in-cheek advice. It’s stuff we do when we know better. This stuff steals our energy, time, and life. 

Julia Cameron says: 

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“The skin of a rhino and the soul of an angel” is Albert Schweitzer’s advice for being a great leader. I think it can apply to being a great woman, doctor, writer, mother, lover, or construction worker. 

If you have the skin of a rhino, you don’t take things personally and you don’t let criticisms knock you down. If you have the soul of an angel, you’ve got spirit, you see the best in yourself and others, and you walk on the bright side of the street. 

Inspirational quotation: “Don’t take things personally; someone’s always going to be mad at you and that’s okay,” says Robert K. Cooper in The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership and Life. “What other people convey – in what they think, feel, say, and do – is rarely about you; instead, it’s almost always about them.” 

Life Tip: Practice shrugging off your mistakes and letting people be people mad at you. When you stand up for yourself, you’re bound to piss them off. When you set and maintain your boundaries, people may be inconvenienced and angry. That’s okay. Eventually they’ll come around. Or they won’t — and someone else will come around instead.

Olivia Newton-John not only survived breast cancer, she now sees it as a gift.

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Inspirational quotation: “I read old interviews of myself before I went through [breast cancer], and I used to talk about being worried about getting old or getting sick. Who knows if I created it just to have to face my fear? I often wonder about that,” says Olivia Newton-John in the September 2007 issue of Alternative Medicine magazine.  

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