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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
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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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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
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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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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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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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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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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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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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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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