Sarah Felix Burns
Sarah Felix Burns is an award winning Canadian author. She was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and grew up in the tiny village of Gros Cap on the shores of Lake Superior. She attended the University of British Columbia in the 1990’s and majored in women’s studies and history. She then completed a masters in social work at the University of Toronto.
Her first work of fiction – Jackfish, The Vanishing Village – was published in 2007 and was the winner of the 2008 Northern Lit Award. Song Over Quiet Lake was published in 2009 and was selected as one of the Canadian Stories – Best British Columbia Authors and Stories in 2011.
Sarah Felix Burns was the creator, author and producer of the popular blog House Crazy from 2011 – 2016. She has lived in Colorado since 2002 and is the mother of 2 kids and a rescue dog.
“We are all running toward something, girl. Life or death, and eventually we learn that all roads lead to death.”
“But even now, especially now, it seems to me that women have a strength about them that men never had. And I wonder how did men always get portrayed in the movies and such as the strong ones? How did it come to be that women are made to look like the weak ones who need protectin'? Truth is, it's men who need the protectin'. Really they do. Women have the strong thing inside of them and the can get through anything. They just can. They're used to pain of child birthing - pain no man knows - and some women being battered around and not treated right through all the centuries and having to learn at a real young age how to stay alive on the inside when the outside is being hurt real bad. Most all women know that. But men. Those poor men. They just don't have the inside strength the women do. It's harder for men to feel pain.”
“Still, there was always that wish, that desire to be someone else, somewhere else.”
“And I know things have to change. Over time, everything changes.”