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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
Doesn
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Children
Heartache
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In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising.
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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I don't look like who I am.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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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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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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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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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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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.
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The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
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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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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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