World Kindness Day: 7 powerful women on why kindliness is next to godliness

To inspire you to turn a new leaf, we have eight powerful women telling you just why it is so important to be benevolent in everyday life and how far reaching its effects can be.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd American president, had once famously said: “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

In the current times of growing terror, intolerance, distrust and self-love, the importance of being kind can never be sufficiently glorified. As the world celebrates another Kindness Day today (November 13), it is a good chance for us to sit back and think about the last time we were kind to someone without a reason or agenda.

To inspire you to turn a new leaf, we have seven powerful women telling you just why it is so important to be benevolent in everyday life and how far reaching its effects can be.

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