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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Barbara Kingsolver

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Feet Feminist Girl
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
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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Causes Evening Sound
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
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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Eggs Life Perfect
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
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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Air Hot Ignorance
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Daughter Day Mom Mother
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
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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Civilization Kids Two
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
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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Mountain Moving Winning
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Else One Thing Somewhere

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

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