History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches. — Frances Moore Lappé History Copy Share Image
We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking. — Frances Moore Lappé Choice Copy Share Image
Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked. — Frances Moore Lappé Blocked Copy Share Image
For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear. — Frances Moore Lappé Fear Copy Share Image
With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible. — Frances Moore Lappé Eco Copy Share Image
My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want. — Frances Moore Lappé Goals Copy Share Image
I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty. — Frances Moore Lappé Beauty Copy Share Image
Science is showing us that we are even more connected to each other than we ever realized. — Frances Moore Lappé Connected Copy Share Image
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy, — Frances Moore Lappé Democracy Copy Share Image
I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it… — Frances Moore Lappé Believe 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… — Frances Moore Lappé Free 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 Blind Copy Share Image
The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not… — Frances Moore Lappé Advocating Copy Share Image
in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of… — Frances Moore Lappé Agriculture Copy Share Image
Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack. — Frances Moore Lappé Capacity Copy Share Image
much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.). — Frances Moore Lappé Agriculture Copy Share Image
We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely. — Frances Moore Lappé Believe Copy Share Image
I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to "save the world" until I understood how… — Frances Moore Lappé Admitting Copy Share Image
You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that… — Frances Moore Lappé Choices Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost… — Frances Moore Lappé 1960s Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Arriving 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 Alive 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… — Frances Moore Lappé Comfortable Copy Share Image
Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in… — Frances Moore Lappé Accepting 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… — Frances Moore Lappé Agriculture 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 Bedroom Copy Share Image
I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she… — Frances Moore Lappé Autism Copy Share Image
I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly… — Frances Moore Lappé Balance Copy Share Image
I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge. — Frances Moore Lappé Challenges Copy Share Image
The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite. — Frances Moore Lappé Avoiding Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices. — Frances Moore Lappé Capacity Copy Share Image
The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about. — Frances Moore Lappé Bigs Copy Share Image
We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another. — Frances Moore Lappé Creatures Copy Share Image
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