Barbara Kingsolver

He needs to go rub his soul against life.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The past is all we know of the future.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Move on. Walk forward into the light.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“There will never be another Frida.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Every family's its own trip to China.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Greatness is very boring.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Sometimes the past can vanish.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

— Barbara Kingsolver

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“You could allow a gentleman the privacy of his piss.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Daddy and I got married kind of accidentally.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“If men only knew, modesty makes women fall in love faster than all the cock-a-doodling in the world.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control…

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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't…

— Barbara Kingsolver

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's…

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“The wonder to me now is that I thought my life worth saving...Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef,…

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Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined:…

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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left…

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Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Back in Georgia everybody we knew had an automobile." A bu, don't tell stories. That is not possible." Well, not everybody. I…

— Barbara Kingsolver

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The spiraling flights of moths appear haphazard only because of the mechanisms of olfactory tracking are so different from our own. Using…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard…

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“It's interesting that penny-pinching is an accepted defense for toxic food habits, when frugality so rarely rules other consumer domains. The majority…

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“But other people fast or walk long pilgrimages to honor the spirit of what they believe makes our world whole and lovely.…

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Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall…

— Barbara Kingsolver