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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Idea
Mother
Ideas
Life

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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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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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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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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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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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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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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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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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