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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Wherever
Charity
Forget
Need
Needs
Never
Distinguish

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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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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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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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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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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.
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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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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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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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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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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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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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