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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "People ask without wanting to know."

People ask without wanting to know.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least."

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.




Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven"

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much."

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.




Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "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 thinking they're no good."

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 thinking they're no good.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next."

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards."

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.




Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "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 and soul."

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 and soul.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own."

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization."

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?




Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing."

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose."

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious."

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "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 uncertain terms."

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 uncertain terms.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on."

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next."

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers."

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline."

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction."

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable."

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere."

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves."

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me."

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic."

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration."

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind."

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger."

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost."

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica."

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!"

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please."

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men."

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need"

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain."

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage."

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient."

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same"

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height."

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday."

When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want."

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?"

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "He needs to go rub his soul against life."

He needs to go rub his soul against life.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true."

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother"

A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother



Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: "I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political."

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.