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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
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Heartache
Works
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Children

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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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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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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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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 personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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