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Feeling 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 Kingsolver

Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Ethics Waiting Work Writing
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
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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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Empathy Eye Looks
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Artist Novelist Writing

Feeling 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.

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Feeling 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.

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