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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.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Gates
Woman
Next
Body
Men
Life
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Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
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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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The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
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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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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
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Be lovely and do no harm.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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