Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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