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… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother.… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical model of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need." I have… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The good life may mean doing some things that do not feel comfortable. It may mean sitting long hours just with yourself as you… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
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… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other,… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
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