Frances Moore Lappé Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, "I think, therefore I am" and changes it to "I effect, therefore I am."

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Book, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food as a source of nourishment, health, and community, rather than a threat. That means reconnecting with food as it comes from the Earth and with those who produce food.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Daughter, Book, Mean

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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