Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHow strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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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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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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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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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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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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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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