Quote

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

Barbara Kingsolver

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Love
Career
Domain
Careers
Farms
Gives
Relief
Control
Anti
Jobs
Shape
Ends
Stress
Giving
Keeps
Work
Shapes
Farm

More quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

Image
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
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.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
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?
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
I prefer to remain anomalous.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver