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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Airplane Staring Steps
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Library Mind Soul
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
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
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Intention Peacefulness Purpose

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

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