Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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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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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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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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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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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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