I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThere is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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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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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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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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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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