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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

Barbara Kingsolver

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
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
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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Group Needs World
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Alone Being Life Writing
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
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

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