From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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But 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.
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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.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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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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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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