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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
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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Kids Sorry Two
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Thinking Wise Writing
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
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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Pace Sugar Way
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns

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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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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