For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHeight isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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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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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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