A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next … - Louise Erdrich

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Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

Louise Erdrich

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

Body, Gate, Life, Men, Next

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

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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.

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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

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Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. 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 fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

Children, Clarity, Crave, Daughter, Daughters, Mother

Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.

Bird, Die, Instead, Light, Look, Ravens

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