You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Everything truly important is washable.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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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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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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 can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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