"What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love"
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The subtext is a critique of the self-made mythology that powered both late-20th-century fitness culture and the broader Reagan-era vibe: you alone, optimizing yourself, conquering your body, winning. Powter, a celebrity forged in that marketplace, is quietly confessing its limits. “Energy” and “system” do a lot of work here; they sound nonpartisan, almost scientific, letting her smuggle in an argument about collective responsibility without waving a manifesto. When she says “killing the system,” she’s not only talking about the environment or institutions; she’s talking about how a culture of extraction eventually eats its own supports: bodies, communities, attention, trust.
And then she lands on “love” not as sentiment, but as infrastructure: the social glue that makes “how it all has to work together” possible. It’s a rhetorical pivot from personal transformation to shared survival, delivered in Powter’s signature mode of moral urgency. She’s selling a new “natural” - one where wellness isn’t a private trophy, but a relationship.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Powter, Susan. (2026, January 16). What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/whats-natural-and-right-is-to-go-with-the-energy-121717/
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Powter, Susan. "What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/whats-natural-and-right-is-to-go-with-the-energy-121717/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/whats-natural-and-right-is-to-go-with-the-energy-121717/. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.









