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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Pregnancy
Babies
Pushing
Inspiring
Birth
Baby
Strong
Childbirth
Women
Terribly

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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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