I prefer to remain anomalous.
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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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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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.
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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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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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To think is not always to see.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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