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Now there is a lot more awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women. And it hasn't - of course, it hasn't stopped. It's probably gotten worse.

— Louise Erdrich with NPR (2020)

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Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life.

LaRose (2016)

Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

LaRose (2016)

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left. (p190)

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (1996)

What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul? (p182)

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (1996)

Bits of narrative always cling to a title, like magnetism.

with The Paris Review (2010)

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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