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Louise Erdrich

1954 CE –

Chippewa wisdom-storyteller, poet, writer of 15 best-selling novels, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and World Fantasy Award winner; Louise was part of the first class of women admitted to Dartmouth College. A powerful voice for both Native American wisdom and rights, she refused an honorary doctorate from the University of North Dakota because of their Fighting Sioux mascot, wrote a novel about an historical lynching of four Native people based on trumped-up charges, hosts writers' workshops on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, started and runs a “teaching bookstore” that also sells Native American jewelry, art and traditional medicines.

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Quotes by Louise Erdrich (12 quotes)

“No one ever understood my wild and secret ways... I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.”

Themes: Crazy Wisdom

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“I'd open my mouth wide, my ears wide, my heart, and I'd let everything inside... for a while, I wouldn't want anything more but what I had.”

Themes: Openness

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“Things which do not grow and change are dead things.”

Themes: Change

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“The universe is transformation.”

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“Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.”

Themes: Moral Freedom

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“When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.”

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“..don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience...”

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“The point of books is nor to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment,”

Themes: Books

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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?”

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“Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty.”

Chapters: 11. Appreciating Emptiness

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“Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.”

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“when they tell you that I was heartless, a shameless man-chaser, don't forget this: I loved what I saw... what aggravates them is I've never shed one solitary tear... as we all know, a woman is supposed to cry.”

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