Louise Erdrich Quotes
-
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
-
As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.
-
Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
-
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.
-
Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.
-
The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.
-
Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
-
Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.
-
I spend most of my time writing.
-
The universe is transformation.
-
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
-
My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?
-
There are several kinds of land on reservations. And all of these pieces of land have different entities who are in charge of enforcing laws on this land.
-
On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes.
-
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.
-
I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
-
I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
-
The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
-
I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
-
It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
-
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
-
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.
-
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
-
I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.