…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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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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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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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.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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