"My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and are not able to be in a healthy relationship due to historical damage and with non-Native men because I no longer want to educate them about Indigenous Issues. I'm tired of being the educator or nurse."

-- Marilyn Dumont

#Tired Quotes #Men Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.”
“It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?”
“Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone. Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence. And that change, though I'm often fearful of it, has presented me with some of the greatest surprises I've ever received. I'm learning to become friends with it.”
“An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.”
“I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.”
“Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.”
“I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.”
“What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?”

Source : Terry Brooks (2012). “Terry Brooks Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: The Sword of Shannara, Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold!, Running with the Demon, Armageddon's Children”, p.426, Del Rey

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