Jim Fergus Quotes

• 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

  Jim Fergus

  Reflection, Thinking, White

  Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.162, Macmillan

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• Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

  Jim Fergus

  Atrocities, Criminals, Heroic

  Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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

  Jim Fergus

  Book, Thinking, Odd

  Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.84, Macmillan

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

  Jim Fergus

  Mother, Medicine, Saved

  Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.195, Macmillan

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• The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.

  Jim Fergus

  Travel, Fall, Talking

  Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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

  Jim Fergus

  Laughing, Tears, Defense

  Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.74, Macmillan

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