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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Barbara Kingsolver

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fault Men Way
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
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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Ideas Life Mother No Own
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
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
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Book Expectations People

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

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