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Barbara Kingsolver  Quotes
While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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DeathEternityLight
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When you’re given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Children
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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.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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MotherMotherhoodParenting
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Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Art
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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.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Learning
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In Bobby Ogle’s version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Heaven
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

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Value
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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HopeKindnessLife
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On the hill behind her crows flew one by one into the bare trees, arranging their dark blots in the scrim of branches and adding their warnings to the drear sounds of this day. Gone,...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Apocalyptic-LanguageCrowsNature
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Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don’t tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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CultureFoodItaly
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For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under,...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Abuse
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Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you’re a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce...

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IndependenceWomen
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The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Hope
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

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ChildrenParenting
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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MotherhoodParenting
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But newspapers have a duty to truth,’ Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. ‘They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the...

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JournalismPress
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Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You’ve been torn asunder, invested...

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CodiDreamsFuture
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I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior)

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LearnLearningListening-Skills
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Pay attention to your dreams; when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you’ve come home you’ll dream of where you were. It’s a kind of jet...

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Consciousness
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But I’ll tell you a secret. 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 every...

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InspirationalReligious
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

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Inspirational
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Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall

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Nature
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Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus…. Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a...

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FoodGratitude
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No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

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Africa
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I know what it is: it’s a green mamba snake away up in the tree. You don’t have to be afraid of them anymore because you are one. They lie so still on the tree...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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ChildDisappearance
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If the Lord hasn’t got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that’s his business.

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FunnyHumorLove
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These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color leaves and fruits and proud naked Indians in a history without shame. Their...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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FictionMexico
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

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Parenting
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A journalist’s job is to collect information,” Ovid said to Pete. “Nope,” Pete said. “That’s what we do. It’s not what they do.” Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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JournalismMediaNews
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We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

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BodiesDesireDreams
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What there is in this world I think is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout there sphere of influence. That’s pretty much the whole of what I can say looking...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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World
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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we’d like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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AcceptanceDisabilities
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That means you’re my kid,” I explained, “and I’m your mother, and nobody can say it isn’t so.

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MotherhoodTalyor-Greer
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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It’s everyone’s, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

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Philosophy
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People ask without wanting to know.

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Life-And-LivingPeopleThe-Lacuna
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The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I mistrust it. Poultry, a significant part of the modern diet, is emblematic of...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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AgricultureFood
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That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that’s how they do it here. Maybe he’s been in Africa so long he’s forgotten that we Christians have...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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AfricaMarriageMonogamy
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Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles….If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Eating-LocallyEnvironmentFood-Security
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This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that you’ve addressed it ‘to the editor who can appreciate my work’ and it...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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RejectionWriting
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Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Literature
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…I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them…

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Memories
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But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after – oh, that’s love by a different name. She...

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MotherhoodUnconditional-Love
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

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BooksLifeReading
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So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Christian
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You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It’s what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, ‘There, you sons of bitches, don’t lay a finger...

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AmericaDiversityKingsolver
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She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.

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Motherhood
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To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.

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Philosophy
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…animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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AnimalsPeople
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

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ConsciousnessFood
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