It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMr. 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
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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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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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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