Family Quotes by Louise Erdrich

7 Family quotes by Louise Erdrich

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My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our…

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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

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“In English there was a word for every object. In Ojibwe there was a word for every action. English had more shades…

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Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot…

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“Snow stepped forward and slapped Josette, who slapped her back. Emmaline dropped the spoon and slapped them both - she had never…

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The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put…

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“Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at the central coming-and-going point. Gil called…

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“Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.”

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“Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks, stereo equipment, Dylan albums and varnished acoustic guitars, home-knitted afghans, none as brilliant as mine, Janis posters, Bowie posters, Day-Glo bedsheets, hacky sacks, stuffed bears. But as we carried my trunk up two flights of stairs terror invaded…

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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…

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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

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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 have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global…

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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 caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation…

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