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Paula Gunn Allen

"English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be."

-- Paula Gunn Allen

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“The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.”
“For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.”

Source : Interview with Angela Page, www.wjffradio.org. June 24, 2000.
“I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.”
“I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.”
“I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.”
“I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.”
“Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it”

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