Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI prefer to remain anomalous.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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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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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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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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