Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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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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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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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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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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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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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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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