Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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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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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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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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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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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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