Oprah Winfrey is best known, perhaps, for her unique, compelling style and personal revelations as talk show host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, seen by 21 million viewers a week, in 105 countries. A shrewd and responsible businesswoman, Oprah has parlayed her initial success in television into numerous other ventures, including the creation of her own production company which now owns and produces her talk show. Despite her now legendary Midas touch fame, power, and wealth virtually spring from all of her projects Oprah has a different view of her status; for her, success is "getting to the point where you are absolutely comfortable with yourself ... to have the kind of internal strength and internal courage it takes to say, 'No, I will not let you treat me this way' is what success is all about."
Her journey to this self-realization has not been easy.
For her first six years, Oprah was raised on a farm in rural Mississippi by her grandmother who taught her to read at a......
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