Quotes: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach." 

–– Clarissa Pinkola Estés (b. 1945), American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst 

Source: Katrina Rodabaugh. Make Thrift Mend. New York: Abrams, 2021; p. 30. 

via 2020 Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook, 2021, p. 4.

Quotes: L. R. Knost

"Do not be dismayed by the brokeness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you." 

–– L.R. Knost, American author, activist, and magazine editor

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 26. 

Quotes: Louise Erdrich

"To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. We mend. We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets. Sometimes our stitches stutter and slow. Only a woman's eye can tell. Other times, the tension in the stitches might be too tight because of tears, but only we know what emotion went into the making. Only women can hear the prayer. 

–– Louise Erdrich (b. 1954), American Ojibwe writer and enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians 

Source: Louise Erdrich. Four Souls. 2017.