Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers! — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Natalya hugged him hard, already torn with remorse over the forces that govern this family. “No, Seva, you won't be allowed to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“the blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein of nurture and bears… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined:… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“This household is like a pocketful of coins that jingled together for a time, but now have been slapped on a counter… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She married him two years ago for love, or so she thought, and he's a good enough man but a devotee of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Nathan was something that happened to us, as devastating in its way as the burning roof that fell on the family Mwanza;… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“And somehow Hallie thrived anyway--the blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein… — 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
![“[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they are generally content, must such a life inevitably be dismissed as mythical, or else merely quaint? ... It sounds like a community type that went extinct a generation ago. But it didn't…” quote by Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/391/barbara-kingsolver-200_family_on-her-amish-friends-i-do-know-this-fami_1632538.jpg)
