From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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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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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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To think is not always to see.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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