Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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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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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Maybe 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.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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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 know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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