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 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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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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