You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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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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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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