The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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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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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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