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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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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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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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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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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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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
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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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Morning always comes.
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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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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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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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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
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