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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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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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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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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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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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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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