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It’s what you do that makes your soul.

Barbara Kingsolver

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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Past Real Secret
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Book Expectations People
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
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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Foolish Losing Loss
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas

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