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
“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
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
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
“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
Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back. — 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 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
“[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
“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
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
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven — 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
“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] American culture doesn't allow much room for slow reflection. I watch the working people who… — 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
“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
“[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
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
“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'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
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
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
“[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
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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 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
