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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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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 families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
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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 having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.
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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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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 into our bones.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
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Be lovely and do no harm.
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