Melissa

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Melissa.


Book cover for Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You
Our starting point is that leadership, at its core, isn’t about you. Instead, it’s about how effective you are at empowering other people and unleashing their full potential. And we will begin by making the case that if you seek to lead, ...more
Loading...
Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

Roxane Gay
“Abandon the cultural myth that all female friendships must be bitchy, toxic, or competitive. This myth is like heels and purses--pretty but designed to SLOW women down.”
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

Sara Sheridan
“While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.”
Sara Sheridan

Andy Rooney
“Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!”
Frank Kaiser

“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.”
Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon

year in books
Cheryl
220 books | 292 friends

Liane T...
933 books | 13 friends

Benjami...
3,467 books | 118 friends

Terri
703 books | 79 friends

Kendra
764 books | 22 friends

shana
7,051 books | 264 friends

Karen
1,893 books | 28 friends

Virginia
903 books | 259 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Melissa

Lists liked by Melissa