Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up," claims Annie Dillard. That's just about the whole… — 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
“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own… — 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
