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> [It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/it-s-time-to-put-away-our-fairytales-all-of-them-and-assume-our/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

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## More by Lierre Keith

> [What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/what-s-looming-in-the-shadows-of-our-ignorance-and-denial-is-a/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/grains-are-essentially-sugar-with-enough-opioids-to-make-them/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/one-group-of-people-that-get-a-lot-of-ptsd-are-soldiers-who-have-been/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [“There is a name for the tsunami wave of extermination: the Holocene extinction event. There's no asteroid this time, only human behavior, behavior that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/there-is-a-name-for-the-tsunami-wave-of-extermination-the-holocene/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [“The necessity of political struggle especially means confronting and contradicting those on the left who say that resistance is futile. Such people have no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/the-necessity-of-political-struggle-especially-means-confronting-and/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/what-is-your-personal-carrying-capacity-for-grief-rage-despair-we-are/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [“There is no place left for the buffalo to roam. There’s only corn, wheat, and soy. About the only animals that escaped the biotic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/there-is-no-place-left-for-the-buffalo-to-roam-there-s-only-corn/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [“Life is literally a process of one creature eating another, whether it’s bacteria breaking down plants or animals, plants strangling each other, animals going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/life-is-literally-a-process-of-one-creature-eating-another-whether-it/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [“John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society. He believed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/john-locke-called-the-father-of-liberalism-made-the-argument-that-the/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [“Masculinity is simply a conglomeration of the personality traits necessary for the patriarchal soldier-rapist: physically strong, emotionally cauterized, rational, domineering, cruel. All of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/masculinity-is-simply-a-conglomeration-of-the-personality-traits/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to quote Catharine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/people-sometimes-say-that-we-will-know-feminism-has-done-its-job-when/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/for-those-of-us-who-can-t-be-active-on-the-front-lines-and-this-will/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/it-s-time-to-put-away-our-fairytales-all-of-them-and-assume-our/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/men-stand-in-solidarity-with-women-women-if-you-were-born-female-you/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

> [Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lierre-keith/meanwhile-every-eighteen-seconds-a-man-beats-a-woman-every-three/)

[Lierre Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lierre-keith/)

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