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Frances Moore Lappé is an American author and social activist known for her research on food, agriculture, and global justice. Her book 'Diet for a Small Planet' was first published in 1971 and had a profound impact on the food movement.

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“What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother. She said, "I don't think there's a woman alive who would give up fighting for her child, or her mother, or her grandmother."”

Thinking Giving Children Said Moving Mother Fighting Felt Alive Giving Up Grandmother Like Her Wilson

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“I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.”

Thinking Humans Challenges Essence Embarrassment

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“I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't have the support of the rest of the tribe.”

Ifs Thinking Support Stage Tribes

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“I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.”

Thinking Able Roots Latin Posse

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“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.”

“I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, "I think, therefore I am" and changes it to "I effect, therefore I am."”

Thinking Humans Book Effects Late Impact Profound Statements Anatomy Destructiveness Fromm

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“I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, "Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters." So she planted trees anyway.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Said Facts Government Wanted Millions Laughing Tree Plant Laughed They Said Kenya Schooled

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“I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.”

Thinking Luxury

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“Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.”

Thinking Real Pain Born My Own Produce Ease Temperament Stance Wishful Thinking Real Questions

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“For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.”

Thinking Humility Blind Curiosity Stance Wishful Thinking Blind Faith

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“I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.”

People Thinking Needs Believe Community Challenges Impossible Capable

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.”

Thinking Way Ideas Might Simple Answers Teacher Possibility Offers Approach Starting Formulas New Ideas Way Of Thinking Inventor Starting Point Simple Living Spirited

Book:The quickening of America: rebuilding our nation, remaking our lives

Source: The quickening of America: rebuilding our nation, remaking our lives

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Born: February 10, 1944
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Quotes: 113

Books & Sources

Diet for a Small PlanetRelated source material

Rediscovering America's ValuesRelated source material

Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans EatRelated source material

EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We WantRelated source material

Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really WantRelated source material

Hope's edge: the next diet for a small planetRelated source material

The quickening of America: rebuilding our nation, remaking our livesRelated source material

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