Louise Erdrich Quotes

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• In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal…
• Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission…
• I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
• To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
• It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
• I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
• They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into…
• Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
• We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
• Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and…
• Hunger steals the memory
• It was just enough to sit there without words.
• Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
• You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
• By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
• He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a…
• Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before…
• Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
• Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies…
• The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.

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