The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
BARBARA KINGSOLVERAs a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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