“Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.”

“Ah but Art never fails anyone, magic and medicine may certainly fail, but never Art.”

“Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?”

“that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks”

“For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves...so that it occurs to me that perhaps our cultures are not so different after all: the women do all the work while the men do all the talking.”

“...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.”

“The law of the jungle which I learned at a young age, and have been trying to escape ever since, is that we what we must to survive.”