“We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking.” Quote by Frances Moore Lappé
“Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.” WayWantTryingI CanIdeasMatterHardShowsComedyMediumsComicBullyFeedbackMost Amazing Author:Mindy Kaling
“That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.” PeopleMy OwnRiskHappenedMy Own LifeTrue To Myself Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“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.” IfsThinkingSupportStageTribes Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.” LittlesSeemsCultureWonderModernDrivenThanksTribesUnthinkableModern Day Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.” IfsWholeProblemHumanityTermCommunityViolenceConflictMarchTribes Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.” WayShouldMayMightCultureCan DoDestructiveServingPacksDominantSaying NoDominant Culture Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards.” MeanCoward Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.” BelieveHumansMeanHuman BeingsWalking Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.” WantStoriesLastsOrderLinesClassTeacherStudentsAcknowledgeRelativePersonal Power Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.” ThinkingAbleRootsLatinPosse Author:Frances Moore Lappé