Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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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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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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