Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
Barbara Kingsolver
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Live
Disguised
Whole
Animals
Every
Thoughts
Like
Mankind
Animal
Lives
Born
Mammal
Around
Mammals
More quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
Barbara Kingsolver
Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
Barbara Kingsolver
I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
Barbara Kingsolver
Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
Barbara Kingsolver
Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
Barbara Kingsolver
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
Barbara Kingsolver
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
Barbara Kingsolver
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
Barbara Kingsolver
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
Barbara Kingsolver
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
Barbara Kingsolver
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
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
Barbara Kingsolver
It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
Barbara Kingsolver
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
Barbara Kingsolver
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
Barbara Kingsolver
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
Barbara Kingsolver
Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?
Barbara Kingsolver
No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
Barbara Kingsolver
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
Barbara Kingsolver
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
Barbara Kingsolver