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Oprah Winfrey: Life
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For a very public person, Oprah lives a remarkably private life. That's by design. Harpo employees are barred from talking or writing about her personal or business affairs and those of her company for the rest of their lives. Only once did a former employee, Elizabeth Coady, challenge it in court. Coady lost and Oprah's business and personal life remain remarkably private. Her companion, Stedman Graham, is a prominent management and marketing consultant with two best-selling books to his name.
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Winfrey said her father saved her life. He was very strict and provided her with guidance, structure, rules, and books. He required his daughter to complete weekly book reports, and she went without dinner until she learned five new vocabulary words each day.
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Oprah is in the business of interpreting life for people. She is like a contremprary prophet of her generation. From time to time, to be fair, segments of her program contain helpful advice. Yet religion, God, Jesus and the Bible have little or no role to play in her take on how to get through life."
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With her Sun in Aquarius, Oprah is freedom-loving, strong-willed and independent. She insists upon living her life as she sees fit. On a personal level, she is willing to share herself with another, but does not adjust easily to the emotional give and take of a close relationship. Though intellectually open, she can be enormously opinionated and stubborn on a one-to-one level. She often lets her head rule rather than her heart. She seems self-sufficient and detached emotionally because she is capable viewing things dispassionately.
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"Doing this book club has given me the courage to pursue the things I care about," Winfrey told Life magazine. That courage has led to many philanthropic endeavors. She established Oprah's Angel Network in 1997. In its inaugural year, Oprah's Angel Network raised over $3.5 million to fund college scholarships for students with financial needs. Beginning in April 2000, the Angel Network has been handing out "Use Your Life" awards every Monday on Winfrey's television show. The awards of $100,000 each are given to people who use their lives to better the lives of others.
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In 2002, Christianity Today published an article called "The Church of O" in which they concluded that Winfrey had emerged as an influential spiritual leader. "Since 1994, when she abandoned traditional talk-show fare for more edifying content, and 1998, when she began 'Change Your Life TV', Oprah's most significant role has become that of spiritual leader. To her audience of more than 22 million mostly female viewers, she has become a postmodern priestess—an icon of church-free spirituality."[78] The sentiment was seconded by Marcia Z. Nelson in her book The Gospel According to Oprah.[79] On the season premier of Winfrey's 13th season Roseanne Barr told Winfrey "you're the African Mother Goddess of us all" inspiring much enthusiasm from the studio audience. The animated series Futurama alluded to her spiritual influence by suggesting that, a thousand years from now, a religion known as "Oprahism" exists.
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