Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.