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Barbara Kingsolver

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
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
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
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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Boys Eden Girl
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
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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Discipline Funny Things Writing
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
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
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United

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