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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Barbara Kingsolver

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Pet Python Television
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
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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Real Thinking Writing
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing

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