We are inspired by inspirational women! We are, aren't we?
If you know of a woman that has inspired you in any capacity, please let us know about her! We would like to honor her on this site. This could be your grandmother, your best friend, anyone! Please send a brief description of her and her photo to Christina@CodePinkBootCamp.com
How fantastic is it to hear or read about someone that has overcome adversity?
Let’s take a look at Oprah, for example!
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and was the world's only black billionaire for three straight years. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world!
Born in rural Mississippi to a poor unwed teenaged mother, and later raised in a Milwaukee ghetto, Winfrey was raped at the age of nine, and at fourteen, gave birth to a son who died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19.Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
By the mid 1990s she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture and promoting controversial self-help fads, she is generally admired for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. [From wikipedia.org]
