by Margaux Sky

Created on: February 15, 2009   Last Updated: March 02, 2009

Being a mother is not only a most astonishing experience but also the most remarkable responsibility a woman will undertake in her lifetime. Many women, like Oprah Winfrey, choose careers over family but do not lose that maternal instinct regardless of the choice to forego motherhood. Being female is an automatic incorporation of the ability to nurture and to love. A woman does not need to give birth to honor these emotions.

Oprah Winfrey exemplifies the ability to love, nurture, and protect. These are duties women know are instinctive to mothering. Having suffered many injustices in life, she opened her heart to the compelling influences of love and healing instead hate and cruelty. These powerful choices set Oprah on a spiritually inspirational plateau. It takes strength of character and an innate trusting of oneself to overcome crippling obstacles and achieve the accomplishments Oprah has. Mothers weep for their children's pain more than their own, and Oprah has shed many honest tears listening to those in deep anguish reveal their broken spirits to her.

Her weight struggle and living under public scrutiny have given her solid backbone that can withstand awful injustices that are invasive and unnecessary. Many of us would crumble under such painful interference into our lives. Oprah, like a mother, deals with disturbances by digging deep into her heart to cultivate goodness. It seems her answer to battling abuse is love and goodness. Any mother would suggest a peaceful way to an end to means than that of violence or pain.

It's said that women who do not bear children secretly harbor the desire to fulfill the maternal instinct. Who better to illustrate this conjecture than Oprah? She is not only a redeemer to scores of people struggling with emotional problems ranging from extreme weight-gain to extreme weight-loss, self adoration to self-destructive behavior, she has become a rescuer to a group of young girls whose futures would have been stunted, at best. Oprah promoted her staunch belief in goodness by constructing the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Johannesburg, South Africa. Personally financing the establishment at no less than $40,000,000.00, Oprah has secured the future of 150 poor, underprivileged girls who, without her keen generosity, would not have stood a chance against the harsh, few chances fate delivers those lost in the distant, poorest, forgotten parts of the world. Because of Ms. Winfrey's determination to bring education to

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