Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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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.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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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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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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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 happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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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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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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