Marissa

“I sometimes feel like a foolish young grandmother armed with a teaspoon, determined to remove three mountains from the path to liberation: the mountain of racism, the mountain of sexism and the mountain of nationalist oppression. I tire easily these days ... Sometimes I feel the tiredness is old, as old as the colonial process itself. On those days I am energized by the fact that it is not my fatigue but the fatigue of the oppressor's system which haunts me. On other days the tiredness is deeply personal.”
― Lee Maracle, I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism

“When you told me that I want too much, I considered how much you take.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“I learned that any power asks you to dedicate your life to its expansion.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir