Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

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• Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
• The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
• Morning always comes.
• There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a…
• Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
• Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo,…
• I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss…
• I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know…
• This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
• There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what…
• God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
• Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to…
• If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
• Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still…
• My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand…
• Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
• I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
• 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 entreaties to body…
• No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.
• When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out…

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