I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEROur childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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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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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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