All Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
- In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could… Bake
- Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick… Down
- She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't. All
- A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn… Baby
- If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk. Been
- Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just… Appalled
- ...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or… Alive
- The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,… Astonishing
- Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,… Brittle
- You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this… American
- The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best. Best
- Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. Barefoot
- Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of… Addresses
- How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we… Allowed
- ...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of… Bed
- A flower is a plant's way of making love. Flower
- At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point,… All
- Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and… Brain
- I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use,… Decided
- It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell… Best