How Four Powerful Women Find Power
We asked a few notables we look up to tell us where they find power in their own lives.
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the September 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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New Yorker staff writer and author of Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire (Picador) People often underestimate the power of... A spontaneous act of kindness. It's the little things—a smile, or offering someone your seat—that express our sense of solidarity with other human beings. I felt most powerful when... I wrote the last sentence of my first book. Writing is fraught with obstacles, so finishing feels like climbing to a mountaintop and planting your flag. A true sign of power is... Self-reliance, as in the really important person who answers her own phone. I respect people who don't need trappings of power because they've found it within. |
