Top 20 Quotes About Indigenous Women: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Indigenous Women

#1. Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

Melissa Farley

#2. Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.

Julie Burchill

#3. I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

Alice Walker

#4. Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

Conan O'Brien

#5. I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.

Quentin Bryce

#6. Frederick knows better than to believe, as his wife sometimes claims to, that all things happen for a reason. Things happen; it is up to us to invent for them a purpose.

Stefan Merrill Block

#7. In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.

Subcomandante Marcos

#8. I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.

Ringo Starr

#9. Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

Shneur Zalman Of Liadi

#10. Don't try to think outside the box- get outside the box, then think!

Adam Hartung

#11. An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Robin Morgan

#12. Go through every closet in your house in every room.

Frederick Lenz

#13. We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means
all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.

Derrick Jensen