The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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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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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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