" [The aboriginal women] were quite interested in my experience in being in a residential school as a white - and even amongst themselves they had such different experience of residential schools. Some of them loved it and some of them hated it. I was sort of somewhere in between there. So we all came from different positions on the same issue, but we did share a common ground. Also, we all had our children very young. All my kids are the same age as their kids. That became a much stronger common ground than the difference between being aboriginal or white. Having children drove a lot of conversation, discussion and thinking for writing.

Nancy Steel, Interview 2

" We talked at length about society's lack of support for women who become pregnant and who must make choices that are difficult, whether it be to get married, to abort the child, to carry and keep the child, or to carry and give the child to adoptive parents. What did not emerge from the discussion was a firm statement about the 'right' thing to do. What did emerge was a lament for the lack of support for women in their choice.

Nancy Steel, Journal