organization is the religion of the single parent.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHumans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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As 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.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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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.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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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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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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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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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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