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• We are the women of daylight; of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Dream, Memories, Two

  Paula Gunn Allen (1997). “Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995”

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• An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Civilization, Mind, Odd Things

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• In America, law substitutes for custom.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Law, America, Substitutes

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Dancer, Understanding, Process

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Views, Ethnicity, Discipline

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• In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  God, Trios, Groups

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Sight, Unseen, Alive

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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