Robyn Ward
http://www.rewardingrelationships.ca
“If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?”
― A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
― A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
“Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin.”
― Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
― Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
“I am not here in this life to be well balanced or admired. I'm here to be an oddball, eccentric, different, wildly imaginative, creative, daring, curious, inventive and even a tad strange at times.”
― Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
― Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
“Patriarchy believes emotion is weak and has no place in business or governance. It means leaving pieces of you behind when you sit at the table. It means that if you want to be part of the winning side, you have to comply and be ready to be part of the team without holding them back.
Matriarchal and egalitarian systems promote love-based decision-making and space for people to share their emotions.”
― Calling My Spirit Back
Matriarchal and egalitarian systems promote love-based decision-making and space for people to share their emotions.”
― Calling My Spirit Back
“Does it hurt?' I nodded. 'You know Sekou Sundiata, in a poem, he said the most important part of the body 'ain't the heart or the lungs or the brain. The biggest, most important part of the body is the part that hurts.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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