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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Earthly
Snow
Price
Notion
Conscience
White
People

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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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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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