I love to nurture, I love to help people. I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor.
Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.
Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.
The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.
Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary. " It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.
One of my mentors was Patricia Schroeder, and one night she came to me on the floor and she said to me, "Why are we sitting in Congress, when a lot of women would try to do it and couldn't? Why are we here and others aren't?" And I thought back and said it was because my father believed in me and she said the same thing, she said her father believed in her and thought she could do anything.
Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December. " He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.
You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
Use your past as one of your mentors.
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.
You are only as powerful as your mentors.
If your role is to mentor somebody, what you're essentially doing is taking stock of what you've learned, the mistakes you've made, the successes you've had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.
Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.
Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another.
I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?
As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.
Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.
Donald Trump has been nothing but gracious, and a gentleman and a wonderful mentor and boss to me, and to other women. So that's all, that would be my personal choice; not a demand on me.
I think just all girls are my mentors. I feel like I've learned everything I know from just being around other women and learning from them.