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A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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