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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Later
Sure
Give
Back
Giving
Children
Sooner
Careful

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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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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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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it intently political. I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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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 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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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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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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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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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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