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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.

Barbara Kingsolver

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Tact Toes Walks
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Poetry Summer Thinking
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Determine Used World
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Important Knows Persons
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
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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Feet Feminist Girl
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Honesty Needs Truth
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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Kids Sorry Two
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
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Borders Country Trying
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Best Work Offer Thinking

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