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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
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Farmers
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Live
Rural
Virginia
Farms
Surrounded

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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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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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A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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