Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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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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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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