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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."” quote by Frances Moore Lappé](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/067/frances-moore-lapp-4271_alive_what-was-so-moving-for-diane-wilson-and_2975389.png)
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