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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko intelligence is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
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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 bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
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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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History works itself out in the living.
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i want to hear what's happened to you, she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. it's just that there is nowhere else to start, she said gently. niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
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I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
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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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