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Louise Erdrich

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Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.


— Louise Erdrich


#simile #women #simile

I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.


— Louise Erdrich


#love-medicine #names #love

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.


— Louise Erdrich


#men #men-and-women #routine #love

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.


— Louise Erdrich


#next-life #otherworld #underworld #women #men

He had a thousand-year-old stare.


— Louise Erdrich


#men #old-soul #reincarnation #men

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.


— Louise Erdrich


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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.


— Louise Erdrich


#come #fall #hole #invisible #know

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.


— Louise Erdrich


#i #lived #love #rainy #whole

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.


— Louise Erdrich


#creeps #go #go away #love #other

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.


— Louise Erdrich


#death #discouraged #get #got #grew






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Edrich returned to Dartmouth in 2009 to receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters and deliver the commencement address to the graduating class of her alma mater. Erdrich earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in 1979. In addition to books the store sells Native art and traditional medicines and it is something of a locus for Native literati in the Twin Cities.

She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians a band of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwa and Chippewa). She is also the owner of Birchbark Books a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis that focuses on Native American literature and the Native community in the Twin Cities. In 2009 her novel The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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