In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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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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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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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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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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To think is not always to see.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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