Bars Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“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

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, too?”

— 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 an empty…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

“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