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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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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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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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