Conversations with Uncommon Women

by Ellie Wymard

This is a collection of stories based on interviews with 100 women from different backgrounds, all of whom rose to the top of their chosen professions. The contributors speak candidly about how they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814405207
• ISBN13: 9780814405208
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Amacom
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The Pleasure of Their Company

Conversations with Uncommon Women"You are cordially invited to meet one hundred women of achievement who will tell you how they got where they are today." Thus does Wymard begin her Introduction to an uncommonly thoughtful, uncommonly well-written book. The reader is provided with an abundance of insights from women who have "risen above life's challenges to achieve extraordinary success." Wymard has a two-fold strategy: to present within each of six chapters the experiences and insights of women involved in a specific category (politics, policy, law, journalism, business, and arts management); also, to correlate those experiences and insights which are common to all of the categories. She succeeds brilliantly.Who will derive the greatest benefit from this book? First, younger women who are encountering various barriers which are gender-specific. (These barriers may be illegal but we all know that they remain.) When my daughter entered the business world after graduating from college, I wish I could have presented this book to her and said "Here is an opportunity to eavesdrop on Ellie Wymard's conversations with 100 different successful women. Listen very carefully. You'll learn a great deal from what they have to say about themselves and their careers."Also, I think this book will be of great value to other women, well into a career, who have become discouraged by these same barriers. Perhaps motivation must come from within but I know from personal experience that others can inspire us. After reading this book, many women professionals will be inspired (in Tennyson's words) "to strive, to seek, to find...and not to yield." Finally, I highly recommend this book to other men who (a) share my contempt for the aforementioned barriers and are determined to eliminate them completely, and/or (b) who are eager to learn as much as they can from others who have "risen above life's challenges to achieve extraordinary success." Thank you, Ellie Wymard, for the pleasure of such uncommon company.

Conversations with Uncommon Women

This is a splendidly organized book that contains a multitude of inspirational stories of admirable women. A great gift for the holidays!

Filled with wisdom and flows easily - a great read!

Ellie Wymard has compiled the stories of many diverse women of different backgrounds and accomplishments. Each woman has met and overcome challenges, and each story I read allowed me to obtain some wisdom of those who have gone before me. This book flowed very easily, and is appropriately named "conversations...". I felt as though I were listening in on old friends discussing their truly interesting lives with each other.