Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“My father had bought an ugly new clock, and it was ticking again in the quiet kitchen.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Father Travis wore cassocks most of the time because he liked the convenience. He could put them on over T-shirts and work… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I live on the margin of just about everything. I'm a marginal person, and I think that is where I've become comfortable.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“My father could out-weather anybody. Like people anywhere, there were times when it was the only topic where people here felt comfortably… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Father Travis leaned back. I glanced up at him. He was watching us from under his brow, his hands folded in his… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“For as I am standing there I look closer into the grandstand and see that there is someone waiting. It is my… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Romeo keeps talking after Father Travis walks through the door. Keeps on talking to the empty coffeepot and waiting chairs, to the… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks, stereo equipment,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
“Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
“The Creator made us for each other. Me here. Zelia there. Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share
