there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Everything truly important is washable.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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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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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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