Everything truly important is washable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFrom the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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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 changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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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.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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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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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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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 could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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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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