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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

Barbara Kingsolver

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
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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Enough People Wells
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
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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People Terrible Thinking
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People

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