There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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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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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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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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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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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’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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