SHE IS ME
HOW WOMEN
WILL SAVE THE WORLD
"The author is an exceptional writer with a gift for presenting interviews as though the reader was part of the conversation. She understands how to allow people to express themselves." - IBPA
READ LORI SOKOL'S NEW BOOK
SHE IS ME
HOW WOMEN
WILL SAVE THE WORLD
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SHE is ME is My Story, and YOURS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lori Sokol, PhD, currently serves as the executive director and editor-in-chief of Women’s eNews, a nonprofit news organization that reports on the most crucial issues impacting women and girls around the world. As an entrepreneur, scholar, journalist, and psychologist, Dr. Sokol’s career spans over thirty years of reporting, writing, researching, and publishing on such pertinent social issues as gender equality, the needs of working parents, environmental sustainability, and strides made by female professionals determined to smash the proverbial “glass ceiling.” As a doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology, Dr. Sokol’s research specifically focused on the media’s influence in crafting gender roles, further seeking to expose how stereotypes are created and maintained. She has published academic articles on psychology and the media, and served as an adjunct professor in the Psychology Departments of a number of colleges and universities.
Dr. Sokol has also served as a speaker at numerous global women’s conferences throughout the United States and Asia on topics related to gender equality and human rights. Her articles have been published in the Baltimore Sun, The Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, and in Slate.com, and she has been profiled in a variety of major publications, most recently in The Wall Street Journal and on Forbes.com. She has also been interviewed on MSNBC, CNBC, WPIX, NY1 and Fox Five Live.
Her first book, Flex Primer for the New Future of Work, was published by Working Mother Media in 2011.
Follow Dr. Sokol on Twitter @LORISOKOLPHD
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BOOK QUOTES
SARAH FERGUSON
Duchess of York: Page 3
“You’re probably wondering why I chose to wear turquoise stockings with this suit.
It’s because I no longer care what other people think of me.”
AMY FERRIS
Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis: Page 8
“I want women to forgive themselves for all those old antiquated belief systems that were engraved in their lives by others who didn’t know any better.”
LEYMAH GBOWEE
Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Page 17
“When you get to a place where death is better than life, you have nothing to lose.”
BILLIE JEAN KING
champion athlete: Page 24
“At 29 years old, beating a fifty-five year old guy was no thrill for me, (but) I thought it would set us back fifty years if I didn’t win that match.”
GLORIA STEINEM
author and activist: Page 30
“We need to gather people together on the ground to get as many people to vote as possible…and the best way to do so is through bitable bites.”
TAINA BIEN-AIME
executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women: Page 41
“Women have always saved the world by fighting against evil. If we didn’t, the world would have become extinct a long, long time ago.”
KIMBERLY SEALS ALLERS
maternal and infant health advocate: Page 47
“Why in the land of American exceptionalism do we suck at breastfeeding?”
LOREEN ARBUS
disability rights activist: Page 52
“Everywhere I go, raising awareness about women and people with disabilities is never more than a second away from me.”
DANIELLE BELTON
Editor-in-Chief, The Root: Page 60
“I want others who have also suffered from depression to know they can have lives as well.”
KRISTEN PRATA BROWDE
candidate for NY State Assembly: Page 66
“Having lived first as a man and now as a woman, I can tell you that white male privilege is real!”
BLANCHE WIESEN COOK and CLARE COSS
feminists and activists: Page 72
“I have Eleanor Roosevelt’s FBI file, and eighty-percent of it is about her battles against lynching and racist terror. J. Edgar Hoover hated her -- he considered anyone who fought for peace, and wanted to end poverty, communists!”
ALICE DEAR
former ambassador to the African Development Bank: Page 78
"You need someone to have your back, and you need to guard the back of others."
LAUREN EMBREY
philanthropist: Page 83
“I don’t understand why people feel they need a billion dollars!”
KAREN HAYCOX
CEO, Habitat for Humanity New York City: Page 88
“We build walls that matter!”
KATHY HOCHUL
NYS Lieutenant Governor: Page 93
“We need to address why women don’t run for office in the first place.”
JESSICA HOUSSIAN
co-founder and co-CEO, Equality Fund: Page 100
“I’m always aware of my place in the ecosystem – I must build from the top up,
rather than from the top down.”
SWANEE HUNT
former US Ambassador to Austria: Page 106
“People say war is good for the economy? It fails the economy!”
EDNA ADAN ISMAIL
Foreign Minister, Somaliland: Page 112
“If their husbands don’t agree to life-saving surgery, I then say to them, ‘Then sign on this line instead, next to the words: I want my wife to die.’ Not one man has!”
KATJA IVERSEN
president and CEO, Women Deliver: Page 119
“Once we break old gender norms, men will be better able to build their full lives.”
MARIAM JALABI
founding member, Syrian Women’s Political Movement: Page 126
“It’s important to know the enemy’s language.”
CAROL JENKINS
copresident and CEO, The ERA Coalition: Page 132
“We have women in our database who could build an atom bomb if they wanted to, but they would never do it.”
LENORA LAPIDUS
former director, Women’s Rights Project, ACLU: Page 138
“Dissent is patriotic.”
DR. MARIANNE LEGATO
founder & director of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine: Page 145
“Women have a gift to give men that they can’t refuse.”
SUZANNE LERNER
cofounder and president, Michael Stars: Page 151
“They were sending a message: This is our school and you’re not welcome here. It was full-force exposure to racism and racial inequality.”
DIANNE DILLON-RIDGLEY
environmental activist and former executive director of the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future: Page 160
“When I wrote it’s time to mother earth, I used ‘mother’ as a verb. She has been here for us for thousands of years, but we have abused her!”
MONA SINHA
feminist, activist, philanthropist: Page 166
“When Mother Teresa told me she didn’t need me anymore, I cried.”
“But just as Mother Teresa encouraged the children in her orphanage to explore the world, she did the same for me.”
LINDA STEIN
feminist artist and activist: Page 175
“Imagine having to wear something designed for a skin color that is different from your own, with few other options!”
MARCY SYMS
entrepreneur, author, and president of the Sy Syms Foundation: Page 181
"Women must be equal under the law."
CHERYL WILLS
award-wining television news anchor, NY1/Spectrum: Page 187
“What you love you will give your time to. I’ll take that to the grave!”
JAMIA WILSON
publisher, The Feminist Press, CUNY: Page 193
"helping other people realize their dream of publishing a book is also a dream come true for me."
