He needs to go rub his soul against life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHe needs to go rub his soul against life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERTall 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
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWrite 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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWe’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERNo human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIf it’s important, your heart remembers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIf you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFinally, 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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEROur house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIf you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSilence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
BARBARA KINGSOLVER