Hello book lovers! In celebration of Women’s History Month, I would like to present to you, author and philosopher, Jean Houston, Ph.D. She is a visionary thinker and one of the founders of the Human Potential Movement which centers on the belief that humans can experience an exceptional quality of life through developing their human potential. She is an advisor to UNICEF in human and cultural development and has worked around the world (over 100 countries) with many spiritual leaders including the Dalai Lama in India. Since 2003, she has been working with the United Nations Development Program, training leaders in human and cultural development. She has written 26 books including Jump Time , A Passion for the Possible , Search for the Beloved , Life Force , The Possible Human , Public Like a Frog , A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story , and Manual of the Peacemaker . She has also created personal development courses including “Unlock Your Quantum Powers.” Additionally,
Hello book lovers! In celebration of Women’s History Month, I would like to present to you novelist, Kiran Desai. In 1998, her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard received many accolades from literary figures such as Salman Rushdie. It won the Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors for best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35. Her next novel, The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In May 2007, she was the featured author at the inaugural Asia House Festival of Cold Literature. In August 2008, she was a guest on Private Passions , the biographical music discussion show hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3. She was awarded a 2013 Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. And in January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 “most influential” global Indian women. Check out her quote about writing according to a set o