I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERTime cures you first, and then it kills you.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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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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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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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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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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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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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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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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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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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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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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