I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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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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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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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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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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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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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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