Jennifer

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“I somehow missed the scripture that reads 'Forgive your sexual abuser and let him eat at family dinners' when I was in Sunday school.”
― helen knott, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience

“Your body carries home just as much as the land.”
― Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

“Soon after arrival at residential school, we were assigned a number that would become our identity. I became Number 1 on the girls' side. Ninety years after she left St. Joseph's Mission, my grandmother still remembered she was Number 27. My mom remembers her number was 71. Thankfully, our numbers were not tattooed on our skin.”
― Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One