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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.

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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Wind
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