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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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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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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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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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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.
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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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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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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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