I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFinally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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