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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
Baby
Strong
Childbirth
Women
Terribly
Pregnancy
Babies
Pushing
Inspiring
Birth

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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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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.
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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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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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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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History works itself out in the living.
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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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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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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 tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.
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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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