Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERorganization is the religion of the single parent.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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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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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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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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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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