I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERGrowing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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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.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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