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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
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
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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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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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