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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

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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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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.
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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'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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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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I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.
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Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.
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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.
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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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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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I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.
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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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I think it's better that people actually are saying what they feel. Especially, people are saying, I'm not heard. I don't have a voice in America.
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Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.
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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
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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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