Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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