Louise Erdrich

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

— Louise Erdrich

All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature…

— Louise Erdrich

“Blue Juneberry, tough diamond willow.”

— Louise Erdrich

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

— Louise Erdrich

I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in…

— Louise Erdrich

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women…

— Louise Erdrich

I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and…

— Louise Erdrich

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

— Louise Erdrich

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged…

— Louise Erdrich

“Neither life, nor angels, nor principalities nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, not height, nor depth, nor any other…

— Louise Erdrich

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

— Louise Erdrich

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

— Louise Erdrich