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Everything truly important is washable.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Housework
Truly
Everything
Important

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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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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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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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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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