Not Only Is It Harder To Be

We'll Have To Reclaim The Ward 'taxes.' Why Has It Become A Synonym For 'evil'? I Understand That No One Likes To Pay Good Money For Nothing. But Fire And Police Protection Aren't Nothing. ... Roads, Bridges, Airports, And Mass Transit Systems Aren't Nothing. National Parks, Clean Air, And Clear Water Aren't Nothing. A Safe Food Supply, Functioning Schools With Well-trained Teachers, And Well-equipped Hospitals Aren't Vaporous Apparitions Either.

My Mother Was A Continual Source Of Wisdom And Great Advice...she Taught Me That There Is Always A Way Around A Problem-you've Just Got To Find It. Keep Trying Doors; One Will Eventually Open. She Also Taught Me To Accept Failure As Part And Parcel Of Life. It's Not The Opposite Of Success; It's An Integral Part Of Success. I Talk A Lot About Learning To Become Fearless In Your Approach To Life. But Fearlessness Is Not The Absence Of Fear. It's The Mastery Of Fear. It's All About Getting Up One More Time Than You Fall Down.

The Current Male-dominated Model Of Success - Which Equates Success With Burnout, Sleep Deprivation, And Driving Yourself Into The Ground - Isn't Working For Women, And It's Not Working For Men, Either.

It Would Be Futile To Attempt To Fit Women Into A Masculine Pattern Of Attitudes, Skills And Abilities And Disastrous To Force Them To Suppress Their Specifically Female Characteristics And Abilities By Keeping Up The Pretense That There Are No Differences Between The Sexes.

Self Expression Is The New Entertainment, We Never Used To Question Why People Sit On The Couch For Seven Hours A Day Watching Bad Tv. Nobody Ever Asked, Why Are They Doing That For Free? We Need To Celebrate [this Desire To Contribute For Free] Rather Than Question It.