Sublime

Marianne Williamson writes: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? . . . We are all meant to shine, as children do.

the soundtrack that does the signaling here. The sweet, piano-soaked version of “I Shall Be Released” sung by the great Marion Williams, who once helped carry the Famous Ward Singers

My father wished she was Bob Hope’s mother-in-law. I adored her.

If there’s something you want to do with your life and another woman has done it before you, there’s no reason you can’t achieve it too. And if no woman has ever done what you dream of doing, there’s no reason you can’t be the first. Someone has to be. Who are the women you most admire? Why? Find out everything you can about their lives because the

She was good in the fullest and narrowest sense of the word as it is applied to female children. And she had blossomed into exactly the sort of adult her childhood predicted. Ah well.