Quotes from Teresa Jordan

Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice. . . . It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life.

I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind, has so few names for its variations. . . . There's the wind, the damned wind, and the goddamned wind.

Mounted on a horse, we were useful in direct proportion to our powers of observation and our ability to interpret what we say, faculties, of course, which are sharpened by interest. And our interest was boundless.

Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.

Resolve can take many forms. It can flourish within a daily routine, a list prepared each night and answered each day. Or it can take a more organic form, a desire formed and kept in view, something to move toward as time and circumstance allow.

While the cowboy is our favorite American hero - the quintessential man - most of us see the cowgirl as a child who will grow up someday and be something else.

I would look down from the Point to see a hawk riding the updrafts from the ridges below me and I would think: I am higher than he is. This is what it's like to fly.

Faith in our own talent is the gravity, the force that keeps us in orbit around the potential of our own passions and ideas, even when we are temporarily marooned on the dark side of the moon.