“No people is broken until the heart of its women is on the ground.”

— 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.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”