The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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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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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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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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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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