Ducks Quotes

“Everything's ruined, our lives around our lands are ruined, our water, the air, everything.

Their almighty dollar comes first. That's pretty sad. You can't eat money.

At the cost of our lives-as long as they get their money. They don't care how many of us they kill off.”
― Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

“...[S]he wanted me to talk about all the harassment and how shitty it all is and how the men are awful. It felt tabloid-y.

...

I just felt like her story wasn't my story. It was already written before she called.

She had already made up her mind and wanted me to corroborate. But I...

I don't think people like her believe that the men they know wouldn't be any different.

They don't think that the loneliness and homesickness and boredom and lack of women around would affect their brother or dad or husband the same way-

I mean, why would they? They don't think about it at all. They never have to.”
― Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands