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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Barbara Kingsolver

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Determine Used World
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
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.
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Job Mother Running
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Get One Thing Over
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Artist Novelist Writing
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Contagious Done Sleep
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Crazy People Self
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
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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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Community People
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Notebook Silence Writing
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

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