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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Barbara Kingsolver

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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Eye Hands Heart
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
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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Mountain Moving Winning
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Finally, 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.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Honesty Needs Truth
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Empathy Literature People
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Everyday Want Window
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cancer Depression Sadness
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas

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