right based on jane austen's heroin and how they pursued love.and she points out that jane austen -- were both more practical and more romantic about love, not to mention highly successful at finding chu happiness. so forgive me in advance for jumping from jane austen to my big fat greek wedding, but one of my favorite quotes from that movie captures what i think is a quintessentially jane austen notion and that is when the mom in that movie said to her daughter, my husband is the head, but the wife is the neck. [laughter] you know if i had to sum up what i have learned from conservative authors, female authors and businesswomen, that i have had the privilege to work with over the years, i would probably sum it up like this. this is what they have taught me at least, to value and nurture the relationship you have and if you want others to trust and support you, be trustworthy, be supportive. so as they leave you today and you go back to your jobs and your friends and their families, do this. embrace the success breeds success mindset. help others

we're working on a book right now to be released next year by elizabeth cantor called the jane austen guide to happily ever after. and this is a really fun book. in this book elizabeth gives some very politically incorrect advice about finding mr. right based on jane austen heroines like elizabeth bennett and eleanor dashfoot and how they pursued love. and she points out that jane austen heroines were both more practical and more romantic about love not to mention highly successful at finding true happiness. so forgive me in advance for jumping from jane austen to my big fat greek wedding, but -- [laughter] one of my favorite or quotes from that movie captures what i think is a quintessentially jane austen notion, and that's when the mom in that movie said to her daughter, the husband is the head, but the life is -- but the wife is the neck. [laughter] you know, if i had to sum up what i have learned from conservative authors, female authors and businesswomen that i have had the privilege to work with over the years, i'd probably sum it up like this. this is what they've taught me at

right based on jane austen airlifts. how they perceive love. she points out that jane austen's heroines were more practical and more romantic about love, not to mention highly successful at finding true happiness. forgive me in advance for jumping from jane austin to my big fat greek wedding. but one of my favorite quotes from that movie captures what i think is a quintessentially jane austen notion. that is when the mom and that movie said to her daughter, the husband is the head, but the wife is the neck. you know, if i had to your some of what i've learned from conservative authors, the authors command businesswoman that i have had the privilege to work with over the years, i'd probably summed up like this. this is what they're taught me. to value and nurture the relationships you have. if you want others to trust and support you, be trustworthy, be supportive. so as i leave you today and you go back to your jobs and your friends and your family, do this embrace the success breeds success mind set. help other people around you be successful.

not only was she meant and meant to be poor, but in jane austen's time, which of course say.lready a tremendous opulence for her society comment that you have largely people who are not really poor, but also fatalistic. there's a sense that the world was the way it was and no one could measure it or even change it. >> guest: yeah, that was the point. not only were nine parts of humanity condemned to dredge their way through short and miserable lives, but no one died even the most liberal, enlightened radical individuals sought that this has anything except the human condition. but then started in the 19th century he would say maybe he does say vilas, so we can change it. and 50 years later you have charles dickens rating the christmas carol, which is an attack on that kind of fatalism. so what was the difference? well, in the middle of the 19th century, and a minor economic miracle begins. what does that mean? it means that for 2000 years the average human being lived like a roman slave in material conditions that comparable to livestock lived in one room, had with a lot of o