Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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