I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERCodi: 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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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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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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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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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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