Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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