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A Woman of the Iron People QUOTES

A Woman of the Iron People QUOTES

1 " I am the Little Bug Spirit. I come to people when they begin to take themselves too seriously. They think they are big. I cut them down to size." This angered me. I tried to speak, but I couldn't get my thoughts together. The person went on, “I am the stone under your foot. I am the bug that bites you in the ass. I am the fart that comes when you are introduced to the important visiting professor. I am menstrual cramps and diarrhea." I kept getting angrier. “My tools are lies and tricks, misunderstandings and accidents. Everything stupid and undignified happens because of me. Hola! I am something! "

― Eleanor Arnason , A Woman of the Iron People

2 " Who of those born in future generations will believe this? I myself who saw it can hardly believe that such was possible. "

― Eleanor Arnason , A Woman of the Iron People

3 " I am the Little Bug Spirit. I come to people when they begin to take themselves too seriously. They think they are big. I cut them down to size. "

― Eleanor Arnason , A Woman of the Iron People

4 " Knowledge—by itself—is an intervention. Our presence changes the way the natives see the world. According to her, there is no way to study these people without causing change." “The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, "

― Eleanor Arnason , A Woman of the Iron People

5 " Imagine guilt as an iron band fastened around something that is growing: the trunk of a tree, the neck of a child. Sooner or later, one of two things must happen. If the band does not break, the growing thing will be deformed. “Commit yourself to change, Lixia, to living in the present, to making and remaking who you are. Do the best you can. Understand what you do. And do not feel guilty. "

― Eleanor Arnason , A Woman of the Iron People

6 " What had they been thinking of, those people then? They had left their descendants almost no water and great mountains of uranium. What kind of inheritance was that? How did they think we were going to survive? "

― Eleanor Arnason , A Woman of the Iron People

7 " It's a typical Western bias. You think a tool is more important than a dream because a tool can be measured and a dream cannot. "

― Eleanor Arnason , A Woman of the Iron People

8 " I, me, my, mine— Each one a danger sign. “That’s what the witches used to tell us. Listen for those words, they said. If a person uses them too often or with too much emphasis, then he or she is sinking down into the well of self. And that is a dangerous situation. You may be face-to-face with a greedhead or a power freak. "

― Eleanor Arnason , A Woman of the Iron People