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"The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego."
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"I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do."

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"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."
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