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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

Barbara Kingsolver

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
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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Careers Jobs Stress
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Kings Mind Poison
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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Looks Patience World
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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Dark Grief Moving
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
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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Book Fall Rocks

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