Outstanding Women

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In the following five links, the thread that runs through the conversations we had with the five women we spoke to is succinctly summed up by educator Marla Clayton. “Be intentional about what you do and be committed,” she says. “If you don’t have a passion for it, find a different career.”
    Sometimes that means a switch in your goals at a later point in life, as happened with Elaine Honig, who left a long and successful career in the wine industry to go into fundraising for worthy nonprofit organizations. For others, they knew from childhood where they were headed, as was the case of entomologist Lynn Kimsey, who keeps a picture of herself as a young girl holding a butterfly net. With others it was almost a continuation of something started a generation or more before.
    For some, following that chosen path has been difficult and frustrating, particularly for women trying to make headway in careers long dominated by men. But in every case the drive of these women in the pursuit of their goals has not just allowed them to overcome obstacles, but has taken them far beyond what even they once might have thought they could achieve.
    Most of all these are brief stories—vignettes really—not simply of success, or even of achievement, but are inspiration for anyone who sets out to follow a dream. Even if, at the beginning of that journey, they were not entirely sure where it was that they were headed.

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