--- title: Seeing Is Believing description: More than a year ago, Kira Pollack, TIME's immensely creative director of photography and visual enterprise, proposed a project exploring the experiences of women who... canonical: https://time.com/4931057/seeing-is-believing-2/ author: Nancy Gibbs article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-07T11:16:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T11:13:48.891Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Seeing Is Believing og:description: More than a year ago, Kira Pollack, TIME's immensely creative director of photography and visual enterprise, proposed a project exploring the experiences of women who... og:url: https://time.com/4931057/seeing-is-believing-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt109cbb028db6a368/6988dcb4e76ad2be2462f0b4/final-with-hillary-time-firsts-women-changing-the-world-2017-v2-square-for-video-gfx-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: FINAL-WITH-HILLARY-time-firsts-women-changing-the-world-2017-v2-square-FOR-VIDEO-GFX copy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seeing Is Believing twitter:description: More than a year ago, Kira Pollack, TIME's immensely creative director of photography and visual enterprise, proposed a project exploring the experiences of women who... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt109cbb028db6a368/6988dcb4e76ad2be2462f0b4/final-with-hillary-time-firsts-women-changing-the-world-2017-v2-square-for-video-gfx-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Seeing Is Believing > Sponsored content. 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While our focus was on the journeys that were traveled by extraordinary women, there is plenty here to inspire people of all ages, in all areas of endeavor. Some striking themes emerged–the importance of joy, the fierce motivational force of failure, the satisfaction of successes both achieved and shared. Our goal with this project is embodied by those we profiled: if you can’t see it, you can’t be it. For young women, seeing so many other women of dramatically different backgrounds achieving in fields ranging from gymnastics to genomics is a strong signal that success and service come in many forms, and everyone gets to pick their own icons. **To read Firsts in full, click** [**here**](http://time.com/collection/firsts)**.** ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4931057/seeing-is-believing-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4931057/seeing-is-believing-2/"},"headline":"Seeing Is Believing","datePublished":"2017-09-07T11:16:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T11:13:48.891Z","description":"More than a year ago, Kira Pollack, TIME's immensely creative director of photography and visual enterprise, proposed a project exploring the experiences of women who...","url":"https://time.com/4931057/seeing-is-believing-2/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt109cbb028db6a368/6988dcb4e76ad2be2462f0b4/final-with-hillary-time-firsts-women-changing-the-world-2017-v2-square-for-video-gfx-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nancy Gibbs","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/nancy-gibbs/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt109cbb028db6a368/6988dcb4e76ad2be2462f0b4/final-with-hillary-time-firsts-women-changing-the-world-2017-v2-square-for-video-gfx-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FINAL-WITH-HILLARY-time-firsts-women-changing-the-world-2017-v2-square-FOR-VIDEO-GFX copy","caption":"","creditText":"Photographs by Luisa Dörr for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4931057/seeing-is-believing-2/","name":"Seeing Is Believing"}}]}] ```