Aboriginal Women Quotes

#1. The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

Quentin Bryce

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I speak of a Canada where men and women of aboriginal ancestry, of French and British heritage, of the diverse cultures of the world, demonstrate the will to share this land in peace, in justice and with mutual respect.

Pierre Trudeau

#5. The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.

Baltasar Gracian

#6. Why isn't the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?

Tony Abbott

#7. If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

Richard Branson

#8. Me, I'm a bloody tissue sample dried on a bare mattress in my room at the Paper Street Soap Company.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. Poets wish to profit or to please.

Horace

#10. Paris is like a whore. From a distance she seems ravishing, you can't wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked.

Henry Miller

#11. Born to myself, I like myself alone.

John Wilmot

#12. And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. We are half-baked compared to them. Allowed out of the kiln before we were fully done. The old aboriginal myth; the truth, there.

Philip K. Dick

#13. She gave me the big freeze when I said hello that day, though. I had a helluva time convincing her that I didn't give a good goddam where her dog relieved himself. He could do it in the living room, for all I cared.

J.D. Salinger

#14. They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

Cormac McCarthy

#15. I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

Ralph Fiennes

#16. Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

Mahnaz Afkhami

#17. Believe it; 25 years from now or less, you will be voted for or appointed by the actions you are taking today! Guess what the vote will mean. Will it be an election for you to occupy the edifice of failure or to be the administrator in the kingdom of success? Rise up and optimize your potentials!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. Creativity is the DNA of innovation, the virus of evolution, the antidote to automation

Natasha Tsakos

#19. We know nothing about most the people around us, yet there is always a chance they could be hugely valuable to us

Scott Heiferman

#20. My heart is filled with endless praise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Homeland security requires a secure homeland currency.

Janet M. Tavakoli