You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERForgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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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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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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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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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?
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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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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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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