“At twenty-three, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job. This is the beginning and the end of the things you have in common with Oprah.”— Riane Konc, newyorker.com
“You’re just doing your job, and she’s not your boss anymore, so it makes sense that the relationship will change.”— Alison Green, askamanager.org
“The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes.”— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com
“When you arrive at the place where you are too concerned with your career that is exactly the moment you must return to your art.”— Jami Attenberg, twitter.com
“You should be able to be with somebody you love and also live a life that entices, invigorates and inspires you. You should be able to pursue what you want out of this world in every fearless way you want to without running the risk of losing the person you value most. You should be able to have, at…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“The first yes, though, is the one you tell yourself. That one’s huge. It’s when you say, I will do this anyway. I will do it because it matters to me to make this attempt at the summit. You will not be perfect. No one is perfect. It will be hard. Everything is hard.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“I apply to things all the time and I don’t always get them. Whenever I get a no, I apply to another, and off it goes. It’s not personal. It’s just that there are lots of people and the world is full of no. You don’t need every yes. You need one, and then the next.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“It is as hard to do small things as it is to do large ones. Do the most you can imagine. Doing the half version will only mean you’ll feel frustrated and keep scratching at the same projects.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“Deep down, we all know you can’t stand on the top point of a pinnacle on your tiptoes, and not at some point lose your balance, or get tired, or say, 'OK, somebody else take over, I have to go to the bathroom.' There are great things I’ve accomplished in my career and I’d be happy to accomplish more…”— Julia Roberts, harpersbazaar.com
“My goal is not to wake up at forty with the bitter realization that I've wasted my life in a job I hate, because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens.”— Peggy Nicoll, Daria Morgendorffer, Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com
“I don't think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible.”— Shonda Rhimes, amazon.com
“Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means that I am failing in another area of my life.”— Shonda Rhimes, amazon.com
“I’m mostly sad that I listened — and continue to listen — to the loudest voice inside my head, the one that constantly whispers, You can’t be both successful and happy. So choose happy. That voice means well, I like her, but recently I’ve wondered if she might be wrong.”— Alyssa Shelasky, lennyletter.com
“You know, my whole life and career has been championing the rights of women, gay folk and disenfranchised folk. This administration is a fucking nightmare for us.”— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com
“I'm not sorry. I take the apology back 1,000 percent. The reason I made the apology is when the image went out, I thought people would just think, 'That's Kathy doing another shocking image.' I've done many throughout my entire career, and I've done many shocking things.”— Kathy Griffin, rollingstone.com
“"You don't have to rush. You have careers to launch, debts to pay, spouses to meet and marry. That's enough for now. But in the course of your lives, without any plan on your part, you'll come to see suffering that will break your heart. When it happens, and it will, don't turn away from it; turn to…”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu
“We need to reality-check our expectations. Just because we don't sit down and channel the great American novel in one week doesn't mean we won't be good writers. And we need to remember that behind every 'naturally gifted' person is normally a huge amount of work, dedication and commitment.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“You never understand why you had to wait until you get to the goal. Then, the time needed to mature and ripen make sense. Waiting is hard, though.”— Brittany Packnett, twitter.com