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There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.
Starhawk
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Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
Environmentalist
Feminist
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St Paul
Minnesota
Miriam Simos
Miriam Samos
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