Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERBut 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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To think is not always to see.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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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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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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