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

- Ruth Beebe Hill

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

- Ruth Beebe Hill

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 …

- Ruth Beebe Hill