58 Quotes by Wilma Mankiller

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.

During the long healing process, I fell back on my Cherokee ways and adopted what our elders call “a Cherokee approach” to life. They say it is “being of good mind.” That means one has to think positively, to take what is handed out and turn it into a better path.

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.

Growth is a painful process.