title: High Heels on the Hamster Wheel: A Fable for the Modern Woman
author: PhD Cathleen O'Connor
description: Cathleen O'Connor, PhD, is a metaphysician, writer, speaker, and life/business mentor. Quoted in the Huffington Post as a dream expert and featured as an expert work-life balance source in various publications, she is the author of The Everything Law of Attraction Dream Dictionary (2010), and co-author of the 2011 bestseller Embracing Your Authentic Self. In addition to her own business as The Balance Whisperer (www.thebalancewhisperer.com), Cathleen is co-founder with Omega Institute Healer, Elizabeth Harper, of Spiritual Living (www.spiritualliving.com), an online spiritual community. Cathleen, who lives in Westchester County, New York, believes in the power of the mind and heart to co-create miracles in all areas of life with divine love.
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  # Fleet-Footed Hester
  
  
  ### George Gissing
  
  
  
  
  
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  She was born and bred in Hackney — the third child of a burly, thick-witted
  soldier, who had married without leave. Her mother, a thin but wiry woman,
  took in washing, and supported the family. At sixteen, Hester had a splendid
  physique: strangers imagined her a fine girl of nineteen or twenty. It was
  then she ceased running races with the lads in London Fields, for she was
  engaged to John Rayner, a foreman at the gasworks.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In spite of her petticoats — she would not wear a frock that fell much below
  the ankle — Hester could beat all but the champion runner of that locality;
  the average youth had no chance against her. Running was her delight and
  glory. At the short distance she made capital recor