Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREverything truly important is washable.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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To think is not always to see.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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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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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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