Elizabeth Lesser
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Elizabeth Lesser is cofounder and senior advisor of Omega Institute. She is author of The Seeker’s Guide and Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow. For 30 years, she has studied and worked with leading figures in the fields of emotional intelligence and healing—healing self and healing society. For much of that time, Lesser was a driving force at Omega, helping to lead the organization, create the curriculum, and spearhead many of its programs, including the Women and Power conferences. Today, she is an active board member and advisor to the organization.

Lesser is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker, and frequent host on the Oprah & Friends Sirius/XM radio channel. She attended Barnard College and San Francisco State University. Formerly a midwife and birth educator, she has taught workshops on emotional intelligence, meditation, women’s issues, and death and dying. She has appeared on national radio and television, and lectured at college campuses, retreat centers, and conferences nationwide.

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Full-Time Daddies, Women in the House and the New Kitchen Wisdom

Posted May 24, 2010 | 10:40:00 (EST)

Recently, voters in northeastern Ohio received a flyer in the mail with a line straight out of the 1950's: "Let's take Betty Sutton out of the House and send her back to the kitchen." Betty Sutton has served in the US House of Representatives since 2007. She sits on the...

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On Becoming a Grandmother

Posted October 22, 2009 | 09:40:50 (EST)

I've always looked younger than my age. In grade school I was little and chubby: "baby fat" is the humiliating phrase I recall. In junior high I was the last girl to wear a bra, both because I didn't need one and because my mother was a feminist. Her mortifying...
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