Guest blog post: Soraya Chemaly is a feminist starist and media critic. This excellent piece was originally published on The Huffington Post.

This week the Georgia State legislature debated a bill in the House, that would make it necessary for a woman to carry a stillborn baby until she 'naturally' goes into labor just as, according to Representative Terry England, pregnant cows and pigs do.

We each want to live a life of purpose, but where to start?

In this luminous, wide-ranging talk, Jacqueline Novogratz introduces us to people she's met in her work in "patient capital" -- people who have immersed themselves in a cause, a community, a passion for justice.

These human stories carry powerful moments of inspiration.

Guest blog post: Soraya Chemaly is a feminist starist and media critic. She is also an insightful and thought-provoking blogger whom I greatly respect and admire. I highly recommend following her on Twitter.

This excellent piece was originally published on The Huffington Post.

We live in world where women, commodified, are celebrated for dressing "like sluts" to sell things. 

This Daily Om message captures the core of what AWR about: creating a worldwide circle of support and inspiration so that all of us can fulfil our destinies with power and joy.

Likewise, this photograph of me with my friend Lynn Harris (author of Unwritten Rules: What Women Need to Know About Leadership in Today’s Organisations ), embodies the same spirit of support and sisterhood. Together we are invincible.

Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss.

Rodriguez' son was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001; el-Wafi's son Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted of a role in those attacks and is serving a life sentence.