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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Surrounded
Green
Safe
Growing
Water
Seems
Things

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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 best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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