Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. — 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
“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
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
“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
“She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like… — 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
