A number of comments by women intrigue me about how they - and those of us of the male persuasion as well - deal with anger, frustrations, rage, anxiety and other often disrupting emotions.
The passionate CEO & President of La Negrita Productions, Sandra Duque [photo] said in an interview, “My art has always been a [...]

Psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison has said of her own experience with bipolar disorder: “When you’re high it’s tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones.”
Other accomplished women who have a history of unipolar depression or bipolar include Linda Hamilton, Mariette [...]

In her bio Ladies First : Revelations of a Strong Woman, Queen Latifah writes that she wants people “to see me as someone who is proud and comfortable with who I am…. Be secure in yourself. You don’t need me - or any other public person, for that matter - to validate you.”
But role models [...]

Everybody in some way or another can feel completely alienated and like an outcast… When you’re an artist usually you have to take risks and usually you have to put yourself on the line and go against the grain in order to be great and unique.
And then you sort of stand up for what you [...]

In a scene in the tv series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” [photo] forensic scientist Catherine Willows [Marg Helgenberger] says to Gil Grissom (William L. Petersen) in a deeply ironic tone: “You’re right, you know. I should be just like you. Alone in my hermetically sealed condo, watching Discovery on the big screen, working genius-level crossword [...]