organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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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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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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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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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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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 average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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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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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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