Ruth Beebe Hill quotes:

I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.

As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.

Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.