A dozen or so mentors
- Gloria Steinem – Revolution from Within
- Gary Keller – The ONE Thing
- Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love! and Committed
- Rachel Naomi Remen – My Grandfather’s Blessings
- Madame Curie – A biography of Marie Curie by Eve Curie
- Richard Feynman – What do you care what other people think?
- Stephen Covey – 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – and more recently, from the Covey group
- The 5 Choices – The Path to Extraordinary Productivity (in an age of email and internet)
- Susan Pinker – The Sexual Paradox – Extreme Men, Gifted Women, and the Real Gender Gap
- Keirsey and Bates – Please Understand Me
- Marianne Williamson – A Woman’s Worth
- Patterson et al – Crucial Conversations
- Harriet Rubin – The Princessa