If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Cub had puffed up like a rooster when the article came out, taking it in to show the guys at the gravel… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Finally Cub said, "They don't call it global weirding." "I know. But I think that's actually the idea." Cub shook his head.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“And I have no idea how to be kind to myself. Living, as a general enterprise, seems unkind beyond belief.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef,… — 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 Image
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 Image
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
