Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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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?
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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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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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.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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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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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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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To think is not always to see.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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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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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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As 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.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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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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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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