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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
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.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
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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Cities Firsts Groups
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
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
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty

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