Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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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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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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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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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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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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