Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERVengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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