Deena Hypothesis

“Ladies, it seems, seldom have strong feelings and, if they do, never never let them show. God’s thumbs! I always have strong feelings and they are quite painful until I let them out, like a cow who needs to give milk and bellows with the pain in her”
― Karen Cushman, Catherine, Called Birdy

“Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“It appals us that the West can desire, extract and claim ownership of our ways of knowing, our imagery, the things we create and produce, and then simultaneously reject the people who created and developed those ideas and seek to deny them further opportunities to be creators of their own culture and own nations.”
― Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

“First, when I was apart from you,
this world did not exist,
nor any other.

Second, whatever I was looking for
was always you.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi