Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as… — 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
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Until that morning when we all went to the riverbank, I still believed Mother would take Leah, not me. Leah who, even… — 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
“Dellarobia noted they were not a perfect physical match: Nelda plump and rosy-cheeked, her mother fine-boned. The resemblance blazed in their wide… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I’d like to ask those who favor this position if they would be willing to go to Littleton and explain to some… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I… — 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
“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
“...we sang in church " Tata Nzolo "! Which means Father in Heaven or Father of Fish Bait depending on just how… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Remember how we use to pray to get invited to birthday parties? And they only asked us because we were so grateful… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“They count that as your birthday -- the day your mother gets up." "Not the day you were born?" Not the day… — 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
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more… — 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
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
“Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring… — 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
“Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.” — 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
