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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

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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Must
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Love
Irritated
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Ought

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I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.
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I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.
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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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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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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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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
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I might not be able to use the word hope, but I could certainly use the word optimism. I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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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 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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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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