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

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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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

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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Boys Eden
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Things
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Littles
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Both Real Thing
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Views
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fortune How Know
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Daughter Day Mom
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Sweet
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Knows Persons
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Moving
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Borders Trying

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