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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
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Depended
Aware
Grew
People

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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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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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