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Cookie was Barry’s sister and Mick’s on-again, off-again wife. She and Mick met at a protest when both were involved in the A.I.M. Cookie was a strong-willed, opinionated woman who earned her nickname (her real name was “Cathy”) when she yelled at a residential school nun that she is less like a soft, sweet cookie and more like the tough fry bread that indigenous peoples make. She died under suspicious circumstances when she was still an activist.
Cookie Quotes in Monkey Beach
The Monkey Beach quotes below are all either spoken by Cookie or refer to Cookie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2: The Song of Your Breath
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“Cookie got kicked out of three residential schools. At the last one—guess she was fourteen then—this nun kept picking on her, trying to make her act like a lady. Cookie finally got sick of it and started shouting, ‘You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I’m fry bread, bitch, and I’m proud of it.’” He laughed and shook his head “She always had to be right. When I was losing an argument and wanted to piss her off, I’d call her Cookie and it stuck.”
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Cookie Quotes in Monkey Beach
The Monkey Beach quotes below are all either spoken by Cookie or refer to Cookie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2: The Song of Your Breath
Quotes
“Cookie got kicked out of three residential schools. At the last one—guess she was fourteen then—this nun kept picking on her, trying to make her act like a lady. Cookie finally got sick of it and started shouting, ‘You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I’m fry bread, bitch, and I’m proud of it.’” He laughed and shook his head “She always had to be right. When I was losing an argument and wanted to piss her off, I’d call her Cookie and it stuck.”
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