Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIn a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
-
-
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
BARBARA KINGSOLVER






