What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERAs long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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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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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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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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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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To think is not always to see.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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