“So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission? — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. — 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
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do. — 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
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men. — 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
