“In English there was a word for every object. In Ojibwe there was a word for every action. English had more shades… — 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… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you… — 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)
