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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
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
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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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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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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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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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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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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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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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He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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