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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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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 of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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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 are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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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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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Morning always comes.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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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?
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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