It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Mr. 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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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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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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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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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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