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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
Grew
People
Depended
Aware

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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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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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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
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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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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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