Louise Erdrich quotes - page 2

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)
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. View quote
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Be lovely and do no harm. View quote
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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. View quote
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Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality. View quote
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive. View quote
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Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth. View quote
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide. View quote
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Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness. View quote
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So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul? View quote
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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left. (Louise Erdrich)
... which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world? View quote
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears. View quote
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes. View quote
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The universe is transformation. View quote
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. View quote
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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. View quote
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Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it. View quote
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There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close. View quote
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There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there. View quote
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment. (Louise Erdrich)
Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could. View quote
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line. View quote
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I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves. View quote
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It was just enough to sit there without words. View quote
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Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich - Image
Photo: Alessio Jacona from Rome, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Writer
Born: June 7, 1954
Quotes count: 71
Wikipedia: Louise Erdrich

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