We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I'm just a plain hillbilly from East Jesus Nowhere with this adopted child that everybody keeps on telling me is dumb as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“He noticed the children less and less. He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay… — 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
“So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves forever and ever. That's how come them to turn out dark” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Those of us who give body and soul to projects that never seem to end- child rearing, housecleaning, gardening- know the value… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn… — 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
“Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to… — 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
I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] Organic produce actually delivers more nutritional bang for the buck. These fruits and vegetables are… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus… Lily… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t all a waste,” she told him over and over, holding on. Some things they got right, she was sure of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“[from an excerpt by her daughter Camille] Living on the land that has grown my food gives me a sense of security… — 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
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. Even the child Ruth May touched history. Everyone is complicit.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] If nobody is spritzing chemicals on the predators, all a plant can do is toughen… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Now, it's fair to say, the majority of us don't want to be farmers, see farmers, pay farmers, or hear their complaints.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Oh, whatever would I do without my child-progeny sister to tell me what to do." "Prodigy," I corrected.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its… — 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
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults? — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“He doesn't even look at her because there is too much there, and he's afraid. She is his first child, his favorite,… — 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
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must… — 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
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![“[from an excerpt by her daughter Camille] Living on the land that has grown my food gives me a sense of security I'm lucky to have. Feeling safe isn't so easy for people my age, who face odious threats like global warming, overpopulation, and chemical warfare in our future. But even as the world…” quote by Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f87/barbara-kingsolver-200_chemical-warfare_from-an-excerpt-by-her-daughter-camille_615587.jpg)
![“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] If nobody is spritzing chemicals on the predators, all a plant can do is toughen up by manufacturing its own disease/pest-fighting compounds. That's why organic produce shows significantly higher levels of antioxidants than conventional--these nutritious…” quote by Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ac3/barbara-kingsolver-200_children_from-an-entry-by-her-daughter-camille-if_1497447.jpg)
