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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
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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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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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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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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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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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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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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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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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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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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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I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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