“Leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are necessary but unpopular.” Benazir Bhutto was a dreamer and a doer. She knew that in order to make peace you must be an uncompromising leader and yet embody compromise. She was a woman who believed in challenging the status quo, and that’s why we’re delighted to feature her… Read More
Women Who Dare
Madame CJ Walker: Perseverance Was Her Motto
It wasn’t enough for her to be the first female self-made millionaire. She was determined to financially liberate others. Madame CJ Walker was born Sarah Breedlove in 1867 in the Mississippi Delta. The child of two former slaves, she was an orphan by the age of 7. At 14 she got married and shortly after… Read More
Helen Keller: No Sight but Great Vision
“The only thing worse than being blind is to have sight but no vision.” Can you imagine a life beyond what you can see, hear and comprehend? Such was the existence of Helen Keller, a powerful example of the will to overcome. Born in 1880 on an Alabama cotton plantation, she was left deaf and… Read More