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02/13/2010

A hero for women...

J.K. Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

I watched this speech last week and could not get it out of my head. And then it hit me. I've been so darn hungry for a female hero. I knew J.K. Rowling was a great writer. But who knew she was so funny, and charmingly shy, and such a compassionate leader?

This woman has certainly given us so much more than Harry Potter. And I'm overwhelmed with gratitude.

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I'm a filmmaker, writer, and talk radio host. After a decade of schlepping drugs for big pharma, I finally got the ovaries to walk away from my career as a pill pusher and share what I knew on the big screen. I wrote and directed the feature film Side Effects (starring Katherine Heigl) as well as...(Read full bio)

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