Crow Mary Quotes

“It was true that we were now restricted to this reservation, but just as Susie suggested, we carried our history and our ancestors within us.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“I left behind the loss of my husband and his battle with alcohol, and I took instead my hard-won freedom.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“Crow women don’t rely on a man to help unless there are no other Crow women around. Crow women are strong, and their home belongs to them.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“Some people always have to feel as though they are better than others. I pity those people because if they say things to try to make others feel bad it’s because they don’t feel good about themselves.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“You know we Crow women are always free to leave a marriage if we’re mistreated. There is no shame in it.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“I wish I was a boy. Because I want to be brave, like a warrior.”
He stopped and looked me.
“You don’t have to be a warrior to be brave. Women are as brave as any warriors.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“No one is without fear. There will be times in your life when you will be very afraid, maybe as afraid as you were with your grandmother. But the brave take action in spite of that fear.” “Will I ever be that brave?” “You already are,” he said. “It is the brave who tell the truth.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“how is it possible that such beauty can exist after the horror of what has happened?”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“It seemed he couldn’t take his eyes from me. “You went alone!? And those… those men, just like that, they let you take the women from them?” “I had guns,” I said, wondering if he had missed that the first time. He didn’t seem to know what to say when he turned to Farwell. “She went against my orders,” my husband said, and when I looked at him, I saw his face was flushed. Irvine turned back to me, frowning. “You went against your husband’s orders?” I shrugged. “My husband gives orders to white men. I am Crow.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“It is the brave who tell the truth.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“I answered in Crow, “I would curl up to a hungry grizzly before I would share my buffalo rug with you.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary

“No one is without fear. There will be times in your life when you will be very afraid. maybe as afraid as you were with your grandmother. But the brave take action in spite of that fear.”
― Kathleen Grissom, Crow Mary