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He needs to go rub his soul against life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Soul
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Life

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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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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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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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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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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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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
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