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Parent Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
- It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are…
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