the spirit catches you and you fall down, quotes

“Sukey quickly disabused me of two notions.  One was that it was necessary to walk a razor’s edge of proper etiquette on either side of which lay catastrophe.  She said matter-of-factly. “I’ve made a million errors.  When I came here everyone said you can’t touch people on the head, you can’t talk to a man, you can’t do this, you can’t do that, and I finally said, this is crazy! I can’t be restricted like that! So I just threw it all out.  Now I only have one rule.  Before I do anything I ask, Is it okay?  Because I’m an American woman and they don’t expect me to act like a Hmong anyway, they usually give me plenty of leeway,”" (95)

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