Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Fergus

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Jim Fergus.

Last updated on October 8, 2024.

Jim Fergus is an American author. He has a degree in English from Colorado College and has worked as a tennis teacher and full-time freelance writer. His first novel was One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, which won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association and sold over one million copies in the United States. The French translation was on the French bestseller list for 57 weeks and has sold over 400,000 copies in that country.

American - Author | Born: 1950

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Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

Jim Fergus

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

Jim Fergus

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

Jim Fergus

that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

Jim Fergus

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

Jim Fergus

The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.

Jim Fergus

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Fergus

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