Iditarod Musher Quotes

#1. I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

Wilkie Collins

#2. Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

Lois Lowry

#3. I was very aware that I was a woman and that the Iditarod was a big thing for women, but I didn't want to be given any special treatment. I just wanted to be viewed as a musher.

Susan Butcher

#4. We exchange our privacy for access, and we may be losing our sense of agency in the process.

Craig Detweiler

#5. Train your emotions to listen to your fundamental empowering beliefs. Be principle-centred and values-driven.

Archibald Marwizi

#6. I'm not one of your mustangs. I don't need saving."
"Don't you?" she asked softly. "It's not a weakness or a character flaw. It's human nature to need someone. We all do. You need this, Keith. These horses need you. And I need you.

Victoria Vane

#7. In that silence, I dream to be.

Khadija Rupa

#8. I can see exactly what not to do at the moment. No doubt through the usual process of elimination I'll arrive at my favourite strategy of total paralysis.

Don Paterson

#9. My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.

John Henrik Clarke

#10. The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like 'Beware the horned goat of satan!' and all that. It's bullshit. It's just an animal.

Corey Taylor

#11. A tidy metaphor does not make a wrong thing right.

David Mitchell