"What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time."

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Source : "Celebrating Hellraisers: Winona LaDuke" by Jay Walljasper, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1996.

Winona LaDuke

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“Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.”
“In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.”
“Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another in the afternoon. I didn't want to write a book unless I had something new to say - and it was good to live a little in between.”
“I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you are out to win you are better not wanting to know your opponent, much less grow to like him - and wish him, honestly success over you. I have never functioned that way.”
“There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.”
“I like to work with young people because young people haven't had their dreams kicked out of them yet. They're full of confidence and imagination and vision and when they score, that all get's empowered.”
“Iâ€™m serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it,”
“The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existenceâ€¦the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason”

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