Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThere 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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