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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#arm #carrying #earliest #earliest memories #father

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#broadway #community #deaf #deaf people #did

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #being #comes #culture #day

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#anymore #matter #me #people #people say

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#consider #decisions #encouraged #future #generations

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#career #change #chief #like #limits

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#around #better #better way #bias #everybody

There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#begin #being #bit #contemporary #even

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#bloodless #details #fictional #fine #fine line

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#addiction #almost #choice #everybody #existed