Canadian Quotes: Miriam Toews

On July 7th, we celebrate Miriam Toews!



Life was the only thing. Migration, movement, freedom. We want to protect our children and we want to think. We want to keep our faith. We want the world. Do we want the world? If I'm outside of it, my life outside it, outside of my life, if my life isn't in the world, then what good is it? To teach? To teach what, if not the world?

- from Women Talking by Miriam Toews





About this series

Every day this July, the yak occidental is posting a quote from a book by a Canadian writer to celebrate Canada Day on July 1st. Celebrating Canada is complex, and we must remember the violent and genocidal history our country is founded upon.

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