When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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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.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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