"When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead."

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Source : "Interview with Author & Visionary – Elizabeth Lesser". Interview with Kelly McNelis Senegor, womenforone.com. January 21, 2013.

Elizabeth Lesser

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“There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.”
“So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human with nature, is the best. We could make a scale with that in mind, and judge any technology by its place on that scale: speech and eyeglasses, say, would rank low; nuclear bombs and coal plants, high.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.”
“Love demands all, and has a right to all.”
“One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself. I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that. So to try to truly render the kind of economic and racial inequity I grew up in, I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn't fun to write, even though the poems aren't 100% autobiographical.”
“Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.”
“There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.”

Source : "Happiness: Lessons from a New Science". Book by Richard Layard, April 7, 2011.
“Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.”

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