“In the beginning was thought, and her name was Woman.”

— Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop (1986)

About Paula Gunn Allen

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

“Acceptance is the better part of grief.”

“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.”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”

“If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking.”

“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”

“Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern.”

“The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”