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The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

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.
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