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Louise Erdrich Quotes: Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.
         

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.


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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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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.



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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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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.



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some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.



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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.



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





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