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I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.

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Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.
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I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.
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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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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 actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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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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Life is like a school one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.
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