“Women can be doctors and they make good ones, too.” As a teenager, my father encouraged me with this advice. Then he took me to the hospital to meet his female colleagues. Following in his footsteps, I became a physician.
Dr. Hyla Cass, Pacific Palisades, CA, psychiatrist and author of 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health (McGraw-Hill)

“It’s important, before you make a comment to someone, to see what it would feel like if you got the same comment back.” As a makeup artist, that advice was instrumental in giving me the keys to success. I work with beautiful celebrities all the time, but they have the same human concerns and sensitivities that anyone else does and it’s important to understand that.
BJ Gillian, New York, NY

“If you don’t ask, you don’t get.”
Lee Freedman, Brooklyn, NY