10 Quotes & Sayings By Mira Jacob

Mira Jacob is the CEO of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), a national nonprofit organization that works to increase the number of women-owned businesses in the U.S. She is the author of Women Owned Businesses: A Guide for First Time Entrepreneurs, which features profiles of businesswomen who have used their vision, passion and persistence to create successful, growing companies. Mira also serves on the Board of Directors for the American Express Foundation, The Women's Funding Network and The National Entrepreneur Center at Babson College. Mira received her MBA from Harvard University and her BA from Wellesley College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

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And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to try to wind itself around an empty shirt, she understood for sure that the people who said it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all were a bunch of dicks. Mira Jacob
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The band in the ballroom announced the cover of a special request, and after a pause, the woman's voice sang out the breathy first line of Etta James's "At Last." Chairs barked as guests rose to greet the champion of all wedding songs, the one that always brought indifferent or fighting or estranged couples to the dance floor for momentary reconciliation. Mira Jacob
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An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter's red spot Mira Jacob
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Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her brother's death to keep conversations comfortable. At some point the subconscious logic of this had spread to the rest of her life so that she rarely talked about things she had been deeply affected by. It wasn't hard to do. Mira Jacob
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Amina would not know herself until years later, when she understood what it was to long for someone, to ache for their smell and taste on you, to imagine the weight of their hips pinning yours so precisely that you crane up to meet your own invisible desire Mira Jacob
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Cooking was a talent of her mother's that Amina often thought of as an evolutionary way for Kamala to survive herself with friendships intact. Like plumage that expanded to rainbow an otherwise unremarkable bird, Kamala's ability to transform raw ingredients into sumptuous meals brought her the kind of love her personality on its own might have repelled. Mira Jacob
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Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand first, like he was going to fall in love with her for her 4.3 GPA or something. Mira Jacob
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Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told what to think? Mira Jacob
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Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered with kilim rugs and fertility sculptures. The white stucco in front of her looked only slightly more substantial than a roadside weigh station. Mira Jacob