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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
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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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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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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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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko intelligence is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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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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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.
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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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The universe is transformation.
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Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
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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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Be lovely and do no harm.
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