Barbara Kingsolver

“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Weeds are job security for the gardener.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense…

— Barbara Kingsolver

But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in…

— Barbara Kingsolver

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Don't dare presume there's shame in the lot of a woman who carries on.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“the unbearable persistence of hope”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“She climbs down and pours half an inch of Jim Beam into a Bengals mug that came free with a tank of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.

— Barbara Kingsolver

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get…

— Barbara Kingsolver