When I was with my mother, I sometimes thought of myself of a trophy—something to be flaunted before friends. When out of public view, I sat on the shelf ignored and forgotten.


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The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Centr...
FRANCES BEINECKE
The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,00...
FRANCES BEINECKE
The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will ri...
FRANCES BEINECKE
Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the ...
FRANCES BEINECKE
Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrup...
FRANCES BEINECKE
I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey ...
FRANCES BEINECKE
The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels ...
FRANCES BEINECKE
Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the sev...
FRANCES BEINECKE
Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousan...
FRANCES BEINECKE
It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps ...
FRANCES O'GRADY
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
FRANCES WRIGHT
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of t...
FRANCES WRIGHT
I am desperately seeking love, but also desperately avoiding it
FRANCES IVY
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at si...
FRANCES WRIGHT
The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapi...
FRANCES O'GRADY
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting ...
FRANCES O'GRADY
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of de...
FRANCES WRIGHT
I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until...
FRANCES BEINECKE
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in so...
FRANCES WRIGHT
Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends...
FRANCES BEINECKE
We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we hav...
FRANCES BEINECKE
When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must...
FRANCES BEINECKE
Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
FRANCES BEINECKE
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Ba...
FRANCES FARMER
We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gesture...
FRANCES BEINECKE
Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any t...
FRANCES HARDINGE
Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate im...
FRANCES BEINECKE
Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon ...
FRANCES BEINECKE
Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're goi...
FRANCES MAYES
I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue...
FRANCES O'GRADY
Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetu...
FRANCES BEINECKE
Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil an...
FRANCES BEINECKE
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
FRANCES WILLARD