Creative Quotations from . . .
Louise Erdrich
(1954-____) born on
Jul 6
US-American Indian Chippewa writer, poet. She wrote "Where I Ought to Be," 1985.
         
   
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F
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

R
It was enough just to sit there without words.
A
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.
N
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.
K
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: In "A World of Ideas," by Bill Moyers, 1989.
R: In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
A: "Where I Ought to Be" NY "Times," 28 Jul 85
N: "Love Medicine," 1984.
K: In "Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992.
 

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