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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Education Order School
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Discipline Funny Things Writing
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Kings Mind Poison
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Life Out Views Work
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

People Terrible Thinking
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin

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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