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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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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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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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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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...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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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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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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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
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Morning always comes.
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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
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