« All Body Quotes · Louise Erdrich's Page
Body Quotes by Louise Erdrich
- 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…
- 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…
- A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
- We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is…
- 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…
- How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms…
- Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband…
- Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine