Listen, Your Heart Knows What You Should Do...Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.

--Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (1933-1945)

Free...Eleanor Roosevelt

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us. --Eleanor Roosevelt

Leadership Tuesdays--Motivational Moment: Believing In The Beauty of Your Dreams...Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

--Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), First Lady of the United States 1933-1944

Twice a month on Tuesdays, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. This week, we are featuring Kimberly Dillon. 

Dillion is an entrepreneur and the founder of the House of Mikko, a company that matches women who have similar characteristics and allows them to provides hair and beauty recommendations to each other. She founded the company to address the challenges that women, specifically women of color, face in finding the "right " beauty products that work for them. 

Although her company is less than a year old, she has been featured in TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb, named by Huffington Post as one of 25 Female Tech Founders to watch, and is a member of Women 2.0. Kimberly has two undergraduate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from University of Michigan.

In this TEDxwomen video, Kimberly talks about the power of acknowledgment in our personal lives and in business. To view the Leadership Tuesdays' feature, click here. For more information on Leadership Tuesdays, see here.

Peace...Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

 --Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), First Lady of the United States 1933-1945

Learn From The Mistake Of Others...Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.  --Eleanor Roosevelt

A New Day...Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.  --Eleanor Roosevelt

The Benefits Of Looking Fear In The Face...Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. 

--Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady of the United States

Never Allow Just Anybody To Tell You "No"...Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."  

--Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady of the United States of America, 1933--1945