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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Life
World
Wrong
Right
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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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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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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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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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
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There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
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