http://womenandtalent.com Sun, 11 May 2008 01:36:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Heather Thomas based her new novel "Trophies" on Hollywood trophy wives - who, she says "get a bad rap, and there's a lot of misconceptions about them. But really, there isn't a hospital wing or a library in this city that wasn't the result of some trophy wife's efforts." Here is ... http://womenandtalent.com/heather-thomas-on-trophy-wives-and-feminizing-influences/ Jamie Lee Curtis says she embraces getting older: "I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I’m stronger, I’m smarter in every way, I’m so much less crazy than I was then. “Years ... http://womenandtalent.com/jamie-lee-curtis-on-growing-older-and-liking-it/ News journalist Ann Curry [Today show etc] was born in Guam to a Japanese mother and a father of predominantly French and Scots-Irish descent from Colorado. [Wikipedia profile.] She has talked about how her multi-ethnic background was at times in her life painful, but has also helped fuel her ambition to ... http://womenandtalent.com/ann-curry-on-perseverance/ Jenny McCarthy was a guest on the Oprah and Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth Online Class. She spoke about her complex emotional reactions in raising her autistic son Evan. Jenny: You know, I read this book [A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle] when it first came out and that ... http://womenandtalent.com/jenny-mccarthy-on-motherhood-and-guilt/ "She was a woman of charm, style and wit, and will and savagery." That is a description of Anne Boleyn (second wife of Henry VIII) by Susan Brigden, author of New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603. Natalie Portman portrays Anne in The Other Boleyn Girl [right], and says ... http://womenandtalent.com/ambition-and-power-its-complicated/ Feminist Majority Foundation video: This is What a Feminist Looks Like!   Related perspective: Elizabeth Wurtzel on feminism "Feminism, which was meant to be fun, has lately started to seem so sour... But it cannot be the case that we went through all that bra-burning and consciousness-raising to be left choosing between, yet again, ... http://womenandtalent.com/feminist-majority-foundation-video/ Many talented women in film such as Charlize Theron and Natalie Portman are finding more creative fulfillment as executives and producers, rather than waiting for better acting roles. But what sorts of challenges do women face when changing or expanding their career choices? Charlize Theron was actively involved as a producer of ... http://womenandtalent.com/shes-running-the-show/ "Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want." That is a quote by Sue Bender, author of Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home. According to ... http://womenandtalent.com/the-courage-to-define-yourself/ "The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul." - Simone Weil One way we can stay vital and authentic is by saying what we really think, even when that may be a ... http://womenandtalent.com/outspoken-and-authentic/ Photographer Anne Geddes writes in her new autobiography about her childhood on a cattle farm in Australia, with an "emotionally remote mother and a father who regularly demeaned his children." She "grew up with no sense of self-worth," according to the interview article Anne Geddes' newest baby is a 'Labor of ... http://womenandtalent.com/anne-geddes-on-believing-in-herself-and-her-passion/