Suzan Shown Harjo Quotes

#1. You never know what motivates you.

Cicely Tyson

#2. Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies.

Suzan Shown Harjo

#3. Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at launch of the National Millennium Trails Program, 1999)

Hillary Clinton

#4. 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

#5. I refuse to go out with a man whose ass is smaller than mine.

Elizabeth Perkins

#6. There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.

Mark Doty

#7. Ben shrugged his shoulders. "I find that people who have good luck in their lives tend to have good luck medically." Perhaps there is truth in this.

Sally Ryder Brady

#8. If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!

Charlotte M. Mason

#9. Nothing disarms strong men like a genuinely innocent and decent woman.

Amish Tripathi

#10. The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.

Suzan Shown Harjo

#11. For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

Suzan Shown Harjo