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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
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Never
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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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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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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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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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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.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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