Women who are not mothering their own children have the cla… - Louise Erdrich

" "
Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortunate who feels witnessed as a person, outside relationships with parent, by another adult." (p162)

Louise Erdrich

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich June 7, 1964) is an American author, novelist, poet, and children's author who features Native American themes in her writings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Karen Louise Erdrich

Full Quote All quotes from Louise Erdrich Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Louise Erdrich:

Margaret Atwood Virginia Woolf Toni Morrison Isabel Allende E. M. Forster

Additional quotes by Louise Erdrich

"You know any Mormons?" asked Martin Cross
"I don't think so."
"They haven't got to you. They'll come around yet. It's in their religion to change Indians into whites."
"I thought that was a government job."

An enemy has to be defeated in battle, but an adversary’s different. You must outwit an adversary.

For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings in Shakespeare, she thought.Identities disguised continually, in a combative dance of illusion and discovery.

Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is f… - Louise Erdrich

About Louise Erdrich

Also Known As

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Louise Erdrich

Go Premium