A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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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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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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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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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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