Pat O'Shane famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What is important is that I have been able to demonstrate to other women and also to Aboriginal people generally that Aboriginal people are capable of doing these things and women are capable of doing these things and Aboriginal women are capable of doing these things.
-- Pat O'Shane

#Women #People #Important
Obstacles are there to get around, climb over or scramble through.
-- Pat O'Shane

#Women #Obstacles #Climbs
The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.
-- Pat O'Shane

#Women #Community #Movers And Shakers
I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal women I do my best to raise their consciousness both as women and as Aboriginals.
-- Pat O'Shane

#Women #Black #Vices
The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.
-- Pat O'Shane

#Mother #Motivation #Poverty
They (the women) will always do it, it seems to me... I am woman and I am strong.
-- Pat O'Shane

#Strong Women #I Am Strong #I Am Woman

If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.
O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
The search is more important than the destination
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
Life is more important than 'what film I do next.
You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

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