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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

Barbara Kingsolver

I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Political Thinking Writing
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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Airplane Staring Steps
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
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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Fountain People Thinking Want
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cure First Kill
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Errors Limited Resources Spiritual

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