When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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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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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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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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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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