Frances Moore Lappé > Quotes

“Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.”
― Frances Moore Lappé

“The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.”
― Frances Moore Lappe

“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 not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.”
― Frances Moore Lappé

“Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action. ”
― Frances Moore Lappe

“For freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.”
― Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet

“I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.”
― Frances Moore Lappé

“Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for beauty. Once we cut the automatic but learned connection between buying stuff and pleasure, we can actively cultivate new connections - a sense of freedom as we shed draining habits and discover new pleasures in seeing and creating beauty all around us.”
― Frances Moore Lappé

“I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.”
― Frances Moore Lappé

“Dancing also helped me make this change. If food and I had been battling, so had my body and I. In the culture I grew up in, the messages were so powerful that my girlfriends and I were wearing girdles to school by the time we were in junior high. When I began to dance, the old battle—me versus my body—was transformed. Instead of being just a problem to reshape and control, my body became a source of satisfaction and pleasure.”
― Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

“I found that once I stopped cooking meat, it no longer appealed to me. If all our lives we handle flesh and blood, maybe we become inured to it.”
― Frances Moore Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

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― Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet

“Because there is no Betty Crocker of plant foods telling me what a dish should be like, I became more experimental. I recall the first nonmeat dinner party I ever gave, for which I made a walnut-cheddar loaf. Never too confident about my cooking, I was comforted by the thought that at least no one would be comparing my dish with Julia Child’s version (who else ever tasted walnut-cheddar loaf?).”
― Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

“We’re just a drop in the bucket, and that’s meaningless. But we say, ‘No, wait a minute. If you have a bucket, those raindrops fill it up very fast. Being a drop in the bucket is magnificent.’ The problem is we cannot see the bucket. Our work is helping people see that there is a bucket. There are all these people all over the world who are creating this bucket of hope. And so our drops are incredibly significant.”
― Frances Moore Lappe