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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking 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.
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Blow Blue Sky
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable

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