If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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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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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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