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!
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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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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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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