A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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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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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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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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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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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.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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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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