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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Unless
Comes
Nothing
World
Momentous
Shoulders
Kindness

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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
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restraint equals indulgence
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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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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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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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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
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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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