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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Ends
Preparing
Women
Kitchen
Men
Seemed
Memory
Crisis
Memories
Food
Times
Earliest

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