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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

Barbara Kingsolver

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Job Mother Running
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Poetry Summer Thinking
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Jumping Magic
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember

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