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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
Rural
Virginia
Farms
Surrounded
Farmers
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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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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.
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