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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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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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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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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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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
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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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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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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 animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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