Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHonk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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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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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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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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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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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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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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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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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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