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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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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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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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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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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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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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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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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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restraint equals indulgence
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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