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 More Quotes by Ruth Beebe Hill More Quotes From 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 always distorted. Ruth Beebe Hill anthropologists pencils paper Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act. Ruth Beebe Hill loyalty self mean