All Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
- I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room. Inspirational
- In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can. All
- For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest. Any
- He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck… Boy
- Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start… Awful
- Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no… Bible
- My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me. Any
- As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there… Arms
- But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming… Arms
- Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language… Children
- A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention… Age
- Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things… Absolute
- He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million… Breasts
- Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a… Absurdly
- Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you… Another Life
- So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what… All
- When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven Brilliant
- I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. Beyond
- Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out. Children
- Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Cancer