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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
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Annapolis
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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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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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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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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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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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.
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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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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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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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