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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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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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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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It’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.
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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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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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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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