“Acceptance is the better part of grief.”

— Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop (1992 edition)

About Paula Gunn Allen

Laguna Pueblo and Sioux poet, scholar and novelist, author of 'The Sacred Hoop' (1986).

“Isn't it time we realized the absurdity of calling a tiny brook a mainstream, consigning the great river to marginality?”

“Walden is the self-proclaimed triumph of the isolated, superior individual.”

“There is a widespread belief that we, Native American and nonnative alike, have nothing to celebrate.”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”

“Grieving is a sign of spiritual health.”

“Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.”

“There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor.”