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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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But when I learned about the dangers of rejection or attack, I thought, it's time to change this. What if we faced any pain we had caused each other and, instead of rejection or attack, could we listen? Could we forgive? Could we merge?
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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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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
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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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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.
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I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, Oh, I am not immortal!.
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