This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFrom my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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