I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe truth needs so little rehearsal.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMemory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIn a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHeight isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMaybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERLibraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERAs long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERthere 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!
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFeeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREvery betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER