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Elizabeth Lesser is a renowned author whose works span personal growth, spiritual exploration, and women's leadership. Although her exact birth and death dates are unknown, her writing career has spanned many years, influencing generations of readers.

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“I think diversity of thinking and healing traditions from around the world are good for us. The movement itself has evolved enormously and it's been a thrill to be part of it.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.”

Thinking Feels Should Kind Behavior Necks Feminine Hold Me Nooses

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“I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.”

Thinking Needs Humans Consciousness Century Revolution Species Reactions Evolve Human Species

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“I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.”

Thinking Men Term Loses Conscious Men And Women

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“I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.”

Thinking Men Hard Stories Moving Men And Women Edges Gender Domain Androgyny

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“I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.”

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“I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down.”

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“I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".”

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“I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.”

Thinking Beautiful Life Is Magic Lovely Mysterious Tragic Touching Mystical Carpet

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“I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.”

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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'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.”

“I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.”

Thinking Divided

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“I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.”

Thinking Internet Divided Evident

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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.”

People Thinking Feels America Voice Heard

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“Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.”

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