I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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Tall 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
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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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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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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