"If it's not as easy as we thought it was, for women to speak our truth, to even know our truth, then the missing ingredient is some sort of inner courage. To first of all, believe in the validity of who we are. And then to speak from it. It takes inner courage. As a leader in a large organization, I've often been the only woman working with powerful men, especially when I was younger."

-- Elizabeth Lesser

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“I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.”
“The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated.”
“Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.”
“Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.”
“If youâ€™re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No oneâ€™s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)”
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
“If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.”
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

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