Deborah Ellis Quotes

#1. but there will be other things, new things. That's how it is with change. You leave one thing behind, and there's something else to take it's place.

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#2. She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear.
But she will keep on walking.
She will follow the moon.

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#3. When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.

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#4. If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.

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#5. Even before you've gone anywhere, you feel like you've gone somewhere

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#6. I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

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#7. While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some place of safety. I interviewed many families about what had happened to them and what they did as a result.

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#8. As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do, and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

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#9. I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good ... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside.

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#10. In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.

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#11. There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.

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#12. We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.

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#13. You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

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#14. Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places.

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