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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Barbara Kingsolver

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Anticipation Hope Life
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Blow Blue Sky
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Doors Insomnia Light
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Earth Men Sound
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cost Greed Money
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cure First Kill
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Boys Eden Girl
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Empathy Fiction Stranger
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fun Hopeful Positive
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dream Grows Out Right Separate
organization is the religion of the single parent.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Everything truly important is washable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Housework Important

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

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