"I have never had the feelings that I've had in this last week where I wanted to both cry and laugh at the same time," she said. "We don't always see ourselves as powerful and you shouldn't because there's nothing in this world that tells us to be powerful." She added: "The most powerful radical tool that we have is love".
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