The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe talkers are rising above the thinkers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMaybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERNow I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhen I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFinally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERorganization is the religion of the single parent.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERLiterature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERLibraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIn a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThere’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERShe is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERVengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPlants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER