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How Jane Won by Sylvia Rimm, Sara Rimm-Kaufman (Hardcover, 2001)

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Significantly, success in How Jane Won is not narrowly defined.

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In How Jane Won, Dr. Sylvia Rimmer lets more than 50 women, in their own words, tell the stories about how they got to where they are. Among the women are plenty of household names - including Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Florence Henderson, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Space Shuttle commander Eileen Collins and astronaut Cady Coleman, Harry Potter artist Mary GrandPre and novelist Jacqueline Mitchard. But there are also women you've never heard of - scientists, teachers, artists and homemakers - who are every bit as successful. To learn how these women earned, struggled and lucked their way to the top is both fun and inspiring. Significantly, success in How Jane Won is not narrowly defined. A sense of happiness and satisfaction is just as important as a six-figure paycheck or fancy title. Any doubt about this is dispelled by Lisa Taylor's account of why she loves being an elementary school teacher or Roberta Baldwin's sonnet to the virtues of volunteering. The lessons here are not step-by-step blueprints; they're guidelines for real life - such as publisher Phylis Grann talking about letting Mom buy some of your wardrobe. Over and over, the life lessons emerge: be willing to fail; don't be afraid to be the smart girl; if a mentor offers a hand, take it; nurture your passion and remember that the path between points A and B is seldom a straight line. Sometimes the first step to success is believing it's possible. How Jane Won erases all doubt.