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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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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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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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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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People ask without wanting to know.
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restraint equals indulgence
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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
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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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