Barbara Kingsolver | life
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Barbara Kingsolver | hope
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Barbara Kingsolver | hope
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Barbara Kingsolver | hope
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
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Barbara Kingsolver | home
At home, growing up, we weren’t really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn’t have what we wanted.
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Barbara Kingsolver | history
There’s always a part of your nation’s history that you haven’t been told that… has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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Barbara Kingsolver | future
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can’t imagine what kind of writer I’d be if I didn’t have my kids.
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Barbara Kingsolver | experience
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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Barbara Kingsolver | dreams
People’s dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It’s what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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Quote from Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after–oh, that’ s love by a different name.
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