Things which do not grow and change are dead things. Louise Erdrich More Quotes by Louise Erdrich More Quotes From Louise Erdrich Be lovely and do no harm. Louise Erdrich lovely harm All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in. Louise Erdrich cutting feet believe Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again. Louise Erdrich heart life death Each life is one short word slowly uttered. Louise Erdrich short-words life-is life Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience. Louise Erdrich insulation There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time. Louise Erdrich native legacy violence To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective. Louise Erdrich passion past art The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections. Louise Erdrich brain trying order I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice. Louise Erdrich ice fists ears I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land. Louise Erdrich becoming land feels We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment. Louise Erdrich perfect inspire life History works itself out in the living. Louise Erdrich In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace. Louise Erdrich mother heart appreciation It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics. Louise Erdrich crude writing trying I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters. Louise Erdrich work-out historical character Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands. Louise Erdrich heart running hands There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there. Louise Erdrich abandoned parent way I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. Louise Erdrich talking inspirational america But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child. Louise Erdrich parent giving children my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy. Louise Erdrich horse jealousy mind
