Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“When push comes to shove, a mother takes care of her children from the bottom up.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Dellarobia noted they were not a perfect physical match: Nelda plump and rosy-cheeked, her mother fine-boned. The resemblance blazed in their wide… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Until that morning when we all went to the riverbank, I still believed Mother would take Leah, not me. Leah who, even… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
