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 KINGSOLVERRecall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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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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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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