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I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

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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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms woman/man begin to lose meaning.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
Elizabeth Lesser
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We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.
Elizabeth Lesser
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If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
Elizabeth Lesser
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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
Elizabeth Lesser
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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Many women hear the word feminine and feel like it's a noose around their neck. Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act, kind of thing.
Elizabeth Lesser
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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.
Elizabeth Lesser
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between societies falling apart and societies getting something wonderful done.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser