Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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 very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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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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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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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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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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