I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREven feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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