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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Everything truly important is washable.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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