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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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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.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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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.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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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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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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