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Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

Anita Roddick

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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Littlehampton
West Sussex
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The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
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A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.
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A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
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Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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