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" I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life. "
Melissa Etheridge
Life
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" What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see. "
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" All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal. "
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" In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side. "
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" There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine. "
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" Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health. "
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