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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Rise Above Rising Talking
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
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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Animal Average Vacation
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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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia Light
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Errors People Sin
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Causes Evening Sound
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Middle Night Wonder
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
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
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Driving Honk Jesus Love
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Expectations People
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Perfect Time Writing

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

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