Famous Quotes by Louise Erdrich

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

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Now that I am dead, I know everything. I used to know nothing, except that things would get better, and things would get worse, and then it would end.

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.

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

You have to look! You are responsible for what you see! You are responsible for the action you take!

Justice is for the powerful. And the rich.

I’ve always been a good liar. That’s one reason I write fiction.

In the end, we are all just looking for love.

Stories are the way we find our way back to ourselves.

We are all connected. To each other, and to the earth.

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love.

To write is to breathe; it is a way of being in the world.

Love must be as beautiful as the day.

The only way to get to the truth is to go through the heart.