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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."
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"If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak."


"Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food."


"That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food."


"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."


"One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings."


"I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world."


"I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey."


"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."


"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."
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