Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.

Elizabeth Lesser

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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.

Elizabeth Lesser

ego people needs

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

Elizabeth Lesser

empowering

See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.

Elizabeth Lesser

around-the-world protection world

I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.

Elizabeth Lesser

husband children commitment

I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.

Elizabeth Lesser

priorities persons firsts

We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

Elizabeth Lesser

friend-in-need teacher needs

To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.

Elizabeth Lesser

genuine spiritual may

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

Elizabeth Lesser

lessons trying memories

Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.

Elizabeth Lesser

night book moving

I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.

Elizabeth Lesser

want forever sleep

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!".

Elizabeth Lesser

mean people thinking

Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.

Elizabeth Lesser

demise body moving

But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.

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grief healing heart

Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

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aging anxiety source

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.

Elizabeth Lesser

nice giving thinking

I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

Elizabeth Lesser

i-can spirit giving

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.

Elizabeth Lesser

feminism men thinking

If men and women were equal, everybody would have the same values.Because at this point in time, many women feel compelled to care for the children, feel empathetically into another person's reality, more so than many men who often are on more of a straight-shooting path towards achievement come what may.

Elizabeth Lesser

men children reality

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.

Elizabeth Lesser

men moving thinking

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

Elizabeth Lesser

conscious men thinking