I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal women I do my …

- Pat O'Shane

Obstacles are there to get around, climb over or scramble through.

- Pat O'Shane

The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.

- Pat O'Shane

They (the women) will always do it, it seems to me... I am woman and I am strong.

- Pat O'Shane

What is important is that I have been able to demonstrate to other women and also to Aboriginal people generally that Aboriginal people are capable o…

- Pat O'Shane

The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.

- Pat O'Shane