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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.

Elizabeth Lesser

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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
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I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.
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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.
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Life is like a school one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.
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It's not always about survival, this life we are given it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
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Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.
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If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.
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See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.
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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.
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First we love within, then we love the world.
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