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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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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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Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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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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Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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