359 Quotes by Louise Erdrich

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

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.

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

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.