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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
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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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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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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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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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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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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I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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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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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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