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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Whatever
Life
Nests
Birds
Thanks
Bird
Safe

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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
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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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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same
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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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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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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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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
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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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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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