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OPRAH WINFREY COVERS ‘THE POWER OF WOMEN’ ISSUE OF VARIETY MAGAZINE

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Renowned media personality, Oprah Winfrey covers ‘The Power Of Women issue
of Variety Magazine is among the list of the five honorees chosen by Variety
Magazine for their ‘Power of Women’ issue. The other four include Salma Hayek,
Anna Kendrick, Gwyneth Paltrow and Susan Wojcicki. In this issue of the
magazine, Oprah Winfrey pens up about her transition from talk show queen to
network mogul and what she’s learned along the way. The media mogul was
photographed by Pamela Littky.
Read excerpts from her interview below.

On her definition of real freedom: I love the way my life has opened up. My
definition of real freedom comes from the movie ‘Beloved,’ where the character
Sethe that I played says, ‘Freedom is waking up in the morning and deciding for
yourself what to do with the day.’ Imagine that.
On taking control of programming at OWN: I am intentionally trying to
create programming that lets people see the best of themselves. Sometimes you
show them the worst of themselves in order to see the best of themselves. It’s
not that I won’t do anything that’s negative, but I won’t do anything that’s
negative that doesn’t have a deeper meaning.
On breaking barriers: I always understood that you are better off doing a
show on parenting with a black father and showing that father putting his two
daughters to bed and reading to them, then you are doing a show about black parenting.
That’s how you break down barriers.
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