Louise Erdrich Quotes

Hunger is a bad adviser.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

Hunger is the best pickle.

No one has starved.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

I'm not as sharp as I used to be.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.