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I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty-- no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.

Jim Fergus
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...the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church.

Jim Fergus, The Wild Girl
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Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

Jim Fergus, The Wild Girl
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Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
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that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
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