If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am… — 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
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“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 Image
![“If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.” quote by Louise Erdrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/80a/louise-erdrich-1271_body_if-as-i-suspect-my-body-survives-by-utte_530216.jpg)
