Women To Inspire A WAHM

WHY I LIKE HER:

Mary Kay Ash personifies "Find A Way Or Make One". When she was experiencing mediocre success in the business world and being passed over in favor of promoting men, Mary Kay Ash took a big risk and began her own company. In the days when she did so women entrepreneurs were not the norm. She shattered the glass ceiling with her "little company" which became Mary Kay Cosmetics and Mary Kay Inc. It's now a large, well-known Direct Sales company with a large distributor force.

Her teachings and beliefs were always centered around "God first, family second and career third". Doesn't that pretty well describe most of a AHM's reasons for being a WAHM?

Mary Kay Ash was a positive thinker and believed in the spirit of women. Her charities through the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation which works with causes affecting women like domestic abuse and female specific cancer charities.

MY FAVORITE QUOTES FROM MARY KAY ASH:

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

Every silver lining has a cloud.
Mary Kay Ash

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash

WHY I LIKE HER:

My reasons on Mary Engelbreit are two-fold.

First, I just like her line of products. They are charming, unique and to me she's among some of the top home mavens like Martha Stewart or Laura Ashley but yet has her own unique style. I am actually a collector and retailer of Mary's products because I like them so much.

Second, Mary Engelbreit personifies what a WAHM is about. Her business began as a home business with a vision. She followed her dream to be a children's book illustrator but was told in the begining she would never make it as one. Yet she persevered and went on undeterred. She pursued her art and financed her dream of book illustration and publishing with her own company.

Mary Engelbreit's works and book titles number over 150 books. Her artwork is featured on numerous items and sales from the Mary Engelbreit Store are in excess of $1 billion. She also published a popular magazine for years under her own name. Tenacious pursuit of her dreams makes me admire and respect Mary Engelbreit.

MY FAVORITE QUOTES FROM MARY ENGELBREIT ARE:

There are not many published quotes from Mary but here's a great one

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit

As a footnote I believe the themes of Mary's works and greeting cards speak volumes as to the person she is and why she is special. She is also a believer in positive thinking and the spirit of women. I especially like her Princess Of Quite-A-Lot theme and it describes me. I have many diverse interests and things that make me who I am. I think that is true of most multitasking WAHMs out there!

WHY I LIKE HER:

Maya Angelou is known best as "The Renaissance Woman". Her writings and quotes are always inspirational. Maya Angelou made her way in the world as an African-American woman who today is one of the most quoted women on the planet.

She was involved with the American Civil Rights Movement and is speaks out for women's causes and against racism. Maya Angelou's life tells the story of a woman who is ever-evolving yet true to herself, her ideals and her dreams. In my eyes that spirit portrays the spirit I see in the WAHMs of today.

MY FAVORITE QUOTES FROM MAYA ANGELOU ARE:

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ''I'm with you kid. Let's go.''
Maya Angelou

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou