Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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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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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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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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