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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“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“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“I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part”
I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations.